Some new Mac programs I’ve been using to code web stuff:

Coda, by Panic Software - Much more than a text editor, Coda aims to be a “one-window web development” app. It’s not quite a fully featured IDE (like Zend Studio or Eclipse) but it’s much more specifically tailored for general front-end template work. It’s built on the SubEthaEdit engine, which means two or more developers could collaborate and work on the same file at the same time. Day to day, the feature I find most helpful is it’s integrated FTP publishing utility, which basically means I don’t have to Cmd-Tab switch to another FTP client in order to deploy updates to the web server. My wishlist: an integrated SVN client.

CSSEdit, by MacRabbit - A really handy CSS editor. While Coda does have a CSS editor built in, CSSEdit is like that, except on steroids. It lets you edit the CSS for any web page (just plugin in a URL and it’ll extract stylesheets for you). It’s also got a handy live previewing system, which gives you real time full page previews without having to save or reupload / deploy anything. It also has a basic versioning system, which will be handy for debugging browser compatibility issues.

At work I’m still (stuck) on a Windows XP machine, so unfortunately I can’t use these apps to do development there. Check out this post from way back in 2006 for what I am (still) using in a Windows environment… some stuff I don’t use anymore, but it’s still pretty accurate.

And finally, the nightly Safari Webkits are pretty sweet. It actually does kinda feel more snappy. Installation is also a snap and doesn’t conflict with the existing Safari installation… just drag and drop to a folder.