After almost nine months with Coda 1.1, which was basically a Leopard compatibility update, Panic has dropped the bomb with a bevy of new features, some nice improvements, and a ton of bug fixes, with the v1.5 update to Coda.
What is Coda? Well, it’s not much—it’s only like the benchmark of awesomely designed mac applications! And having won the 2007 Apple Design Award for best user experience is no joke either. Coda is, as the developers like to call it, a one-window web development application. It combines a site manager, FTP client, code window, world class CSS editor, live preview, and a couple of other things that I won’t even go into. Read up on Shawn Blanc’s review of Coda to know more about what it is capable of. Moving on…
The update brings along integration with Subversion, which allows for team work and a host of other site management features. The Find/Replace feature has been given the royal treatment, which brings it on par with Dreamweaver. Coda can now find/replace text across multiple files throughout a ‘site’ or any local folders.
And along with Coda’s own set of Books, you can now add your own books into the interface along with cover art. Clips have also been improved, with support for groups as well as exporting options. There’s a whole log of bug fixes and improvements which you can see for yourself in the release notes.
Coda v1.5 is be a free updade for existing users but the price for a new license has gone up to $99, up from $79. If you are into web development and haven’t used Coda, you are missing out on something truly amazing.
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I can’t tell you how pleased I am that Coda finally has a better find/change feature. I had kept Dreamweaver almost solely for this purpose, but now as I see it, I can finally get rid of the clunky piece of crap that is Dreamweaver. Although $99? That seems a little much doesn’t it?
Finally! Wow! I didn’t realize it would take them so long to fix that much needed find/change.
This update was long overdue. Most probably Panic put a lot of effort in making something for the iPhone, failed, and then started working on this update. How else can one account for a 10 month wait in implementing something as important as find/change. The new improvements are sweet though.