About Coda
Coda has a lot of features and functions that combine together to make a great web page editor. It uses Transmit to transfer files, has a built in terminal and DOM inspector, and many of the features you expect of a text web editor. I'm not sure if it has extended search and replace, but it does use regular expressions in a fairly understandable way to do complex searches on your pages. Version 1.7 added HTML5 support and CSS3 through vendor prefixes.
Target Market(s): Professional Web Developers
Review last updated: October 1, 2011.
Coda Latest Review
Coda Version: 1.7.4
Score: 138
Percent: 41%
This score was generated using the methodology listed in the article: Finding the Perfect Web Editor.
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Coda Technical Details
Operating System(s): Macintosh
Features:
- Text editor
- Page preview
- Write HTML 5 documents
- Color coding
- Tag completion
- FTP or Site manager
- FTPs or Secure FTP
- Search and replace
- Edit multiple files/tabbed file editing
- Ability to add video and audio using HTML5 with fallback options
- Special character tools
- Can edit JavaScript
- Can edit CSS
- Additional CSS assistance
- CSS 3 properties and selectors
- Can edit PHP, ASP, or JSP
- Dynamic page rendering and editing with server-side programming languages (PHP, JSP, ASP, CFM, etc.)
- Save snippets of code
- Free trial
- No limits on free or trial version
- No subscription fee required
What's Missing in Coda
- WYSIWYG editor
- HTML validator
- Accessibility validator
- CSS validator
- XML validator
- Alternate browser or OS preview
- Wireless device preview
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Wireless scripts, functions, or links
- Create mobile web applications
- Package mobile apps for delivery on app stores
- Save pages as HTML with DTD
- Write XHTML documents
- Extended search and replace (across multiple documents)
- Edit images
- Connects to graphics software
- Multimedia functions
- Assistance with adding videos to websites
- Save Adobe AIR files
- Save files as PDF
- Link checker
- Helps with Ajax JSON, or jQuery pages
- CSS3 media queries tools built-in
- Database connectivity
- Edit XML and/or RSS
- Google sitemaps
- Spell checking
- Writes to blogs
- Free templates
- Free scripts
- Form wizard
- Photo gallery builder
- Ecommerce tools
- SEO assistance built-in
- Captcha support or other methods of protecting forms
- Version control
- Support for teams editing the site (beyond version control)
- Customizable or extendable
- No discounts for upgrades
