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The code hinting in CSSEdit is so fast and light-weight it makes that worth the money just for that alone.

Without question the best css editor for mac. With the ability to override your uploaded style sheets with local ones in the preview mode, and the xray mode which allows you to see and identify every element in the preview, and the ability to sort your elements on the side bar, code suggest, and much much much more, cssedit just straight up owns.

Version 2.0 is so incredibly good I bought it. Allows editing css/html/php pages from Cyberduck.

The best app on OS-X at the moment.

One of the nicest OS X apps I've ever used. Beautiful interface and functionality.

CSS Edit is full of awesome. I bought it mere minutes after trying it out.

The way you can extract any style sheet from anybody's page and take a look, mess with it, preview it...
And the x-ray in the preview is invaluable!

is there any screencast out there about it?

one of my absolute favorite pieces of software EVER. it just makes so much sense in every way. and it's so lightweight and fast - it's truly a joy to use. the developer also responds very quickly to any issues that one might encounter. the milestone feature (version control) is also superb.

one suggestion that I made to the developer was the possible inclusion of a grid overlay of some kind in the preview window. it didn't sound like that was in his plans, but if that intrigues anyone else, say so!

I agree that it's a beautifully designed piece of software and extremely useful-- but the support is almost nonexistant, and you're on your own when you hit a bug. Which does happen.

my milestones don't seem to be saved, does anybody know why?

Simply brilliant, brilliant simple

hmmmm....

1. Code hinting ala Dreamweaver/SkEdit
2. CSS Editing ala CSS Edit
3. Preview where you can edit in a CMS like WordPress or Textpattern
4. Collaboration for SubEthaEdit
5. Documentation for everything (albeit free elsewhere but unorganized)

Seems like it was made for me. It's more like an advanced version of SkEdit.

The price isn't great but since I own Transmit a little better. You can get SkEdit and CSSEdit and Transmit for around the same price. Seems like a good deal if you don't own any of the aforementioned products. If you consider the collaboration a killer then this is probably a pretty good deal.

The other question is how much do you value one window editing? This would fit in nicely with my 12" laptop.

The syntax highlighting isn't tweakable enough for my taste. I'd like to give HTML sections in my PHP code a different background color. That doesn't seem to be possible in Coda.

Not too bad for an 1.0 version, but for the time being I'll stick with Textmate, CSSEdit and Transmit.

I am also having some mixed feelings about this. I already have Transmit, TextMate. Coda do looks terrific. I might just as well buy this.

The CSS editor isn't as good as CSSEdit, the code editor isn't as good as TextMate, it's tricky to get the Clips panel and a preview and the editor on my screen at the same time (check out HyperEdit), and I have to use asp files sometimes at work (Yes I know it's dipping into the macs php support, but how about some syntax colouring?).

Yet the graphics are nice and the Books are really easy to use/refer to. I also feel it might be quite handy if juggling a lot of updates across many pages on a site. For all it does I think it's great value. I'll probably buy it.

I own Textmate, CSSEdit and Transmit so there no point in buying something that puts the light-version of each product into one window for this price. Real coders use different tools, real designers do the same. This is quite handy for beginners with no need (or money) for stuff like dreamweaver.

It would have been neat if they didn't just add a discount for current Transmit owners, but for users of concurrent apps such as TextMate, SubEthaEdit, CSS Edit, YummyFTP and the likes (all of which, except for CSS Edit, I own). That would make easier to justify the purchase of yet another dev tool.

I can understand some people, arguing that they get a 'lighter' version of their current tools. But I'm not sure that argument will stay current forever, seeing that Panic is probably a team effort (or multi-person company effort) whereas for example, TextMate, CSS Edit, YummyFTP, I believe are all one-man acts. This meaning a lot more resources available to implement functions and maintain the app. (Then again, there might be a counter-argument further down the road, as Panic houses a lot more than the one-mac companies. But we all know how often those other Panic apps have been updated lately.)

That, and the fact that I just have a gut feeling that Coda is bound to become a huge hit in the Mac community, governs for some serious considerations.

I find the feature set of Coda to be VERY impressing... The collaborative mode is definitely digging a nice and comfy grave for my SubEthaEdit app, other than rare occasions when I'd need to collaborate on some non-web dev. related things with friends or colleagues (for which SubEthaEdit would probably still pose a cleaner alternative).

As far as syntax-coloring and above all, funcitonality, I doubt that any app will come even close to that of TextMate's... I was going to ditch TextMate's lousy web previewing feats only, here, but it seems that Coda lacks the same ability. I seriously wish they both had the same feature, á la Hyper Edit, which sports a realtime, built-in PHP parser, which I find invalueable for situations where you quickly want to jot down and preview some PHP snippets, without having to fire up MAMP and navigate to your http://localhost:8888/ folder...

All in all. My first impressions of Coda is:

For productivity and workflow, it's definitely a winner, against the alternative of juggling around more than one application (where some of which even uses multiple windows, adding to the mess).

Hate to bust your bubble philippgerard, but real designers use whatever works. They don't subscribe to some nonsense ideology about how their software of choice is (or isn't) laid out. Use what works for you at the end of the day...

I have TextMate, CSSEdit and Transmit and I'm confortable with these...

However this application is just for playing with HTML, JavaScript and PHP in a funny and integrated way, i think that the combination of this four excellent tools is kool.