Alex Hardy

One of the best things about small developers is that they can be more responsive to their customers. The year-long waits for progress from the likes of Adobe, Apple and Microsoft do not apply. Coda has been available for a little over a week, and already we have an update.

Delivered by a slick little auto-update mechanism, we get the expected round of bug fixes and some welcome new features. Minor interface niceties and a useful keyboard shortcut to publish your changes (I’d been wishing for this myself). There are also new language modes for ActionScript, JSP-HTML and Smarty templates.

ActionScript support is a pleasant surprise; a feature I have found useful in Dreamweaver when working on Symphony. I figured that Panic would consider this to be outside Coda’s scope as a web code editor, but it seems not

Two more reasons for me to stick with DW bite the dust. This is a program to watch.

Posted on Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 at 8:23 am under Development, Toolbox. You can post a comment, or trackback from your own site.