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Espresso is not a bunch of apps forcibly smashed together. Instead, we looked at the needs of modern web developers and streamlined their workflow into one focused app. Extremely powerful editing and searching, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit!), real publishing and extensive synchronization tools.
Some features:
The Art of Code
Why choose between beauty and power? Between features and speed? With Espresso, you don't have to. Elegant syntax highlighting, superior navigation, code folding, smart CodeSense, contextual text snippets,
Some features:
The Art of Code
Why choose between beauty and power? Between features and speed? With Espresso, you don't have to. Elegant syntax highlighting, superior navigation, code folding, smart CodeSense, contextual text snippets,
What's New
Version 2.0.1:
Web Preview and X-ray
- When X-ray opens a style sheet to reveal a style, it now selects the item
- Added "Empty Cache…" (in the Espresso menu) to removed cache Web Preview contents
- Fixed Live Styling showing unstyled pages (with Safari 5.1 installed) when using @import to combine style sheets
- Fixed an issue where filling in a Web form would mark projects as edited
- Fixed an issue where Web Previews wouldn't load if the document was open in Workspace
- Fixed Save, Save As, etc. to not be active for Web Previews
- Improved the descriptions for various server/publishing errors
- Improved compatibility with SFTP keyboard-interactive authentication
- Improved Server Settings so it's more graceful about malformed server credentials
- Fixed redundant error dialog when choosing not to trust a server
- Fixed various server login issues with symlinks and special characters
- Fixed server disconnect indicator sticking around even when disconnected
- Replacing a search result after Find in Project no longer deselects the document
- Added back the number of results/replacements next to files when Finding in Project
- Fixed Find in Project fields not scrolling with the typed text
- Fixed document-based Find overlay so it's sized appropriately on 10.7 Lion
- Fixed sizing of Find and Replace dialogs so they don't become larger than your screen
- Improved cursor performance when selecting on-screen colors using the loupe
- Improved syntax definitions for HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP
- Wrap With Link again copies the URL from the clipboard
- Added .pyc documents to the types hidden by default
- Fixed issue where Zen coding would strip PHP variables
- Fixed CTP template files to be PHP by default
- Fixed the "Open in Tabs" preference so it actually, you know, does what it says
- Fixed an issue where Un/Comment would remove comments that weren't selected
- Fixed the line height for empty lines sometimes not corresponding to the font preferences
- Fixed incorrect pixel dimensions for non-72dpi images
Version 2.0.1:
Web Preview and X-ray
- When X-ray opens a style sheet to reveal a style, it now selects the item
- Added "Empty Cache…" (in the Espresso menu) to removed cache Web Preview contents
- Fixed Live Styling showing unstyled pages (with Safari 5.1 installed) when using @import to combine style sheets
- Fixed an issue where filling in a Web form would mark more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.6.8 or later
Espresso User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:34,270 |
| Version Downloads:2,538 |
| Type:Development : HTML |
| License:Demo |
| Date:02 Nov 2011 |
| Platform:Intel |
| Price: $79.00 |
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Espresso is not a bunch of apps forcibly smashed together. Instead, we looked at the needs of modern web developers and streamlined their workflow into one focused app. Extremely powerful editing and searching, sleek projects, live preview (we make CSSEdit!), real publishing and extensive synchronization tools.
Some features:
The Art of Code
Why choose between beauty and power? Between features and speed? With Espresso, you don't have to. Elegant syntax highlighting, superior navigation, code folding, smart CodeSense, contextual text snippets, spell check, rich extensibility and raw speed: presenting a state-of-the-art text engine for code artists.
Navigator - much more than an ordinary symbol list
Espresso has a unique Navigator that's best compared to CSSEdit's styles list. It shows the hierarchical structure in your documents, no matter how complex. You can even drag around elements to reorganize your code!
Smart snippets
No editor is complete without a way to keep frequently used pieces of text. The sleek Snippets tool does that, and more. You can take advantage of selection placeholders, mirror transformations and tab triggers. Some languages even offer advanced contextual snippets, showing you just what you need.
Code folding - a hidden delight
There is more than meets the eye in the Espresso text editor. Move your mouse over the line number gutter, and a handy code folding ribbon fades in. Quickly collapse blocks of text for a more focused look at code. And the best thing? It works for any language that shows up in the Navigator.
CodeSense knows where you are
Espresso features an immensely powerful rule-based syntax engine, Core Syntax, that transforms your text documents into semantic structure. CodeSense leverages this power to suggest smart contextual completions in a language-independent manner. Any Sugar can easily offer amazing auto-completion support without writing a single line of code. And because completions are based on the advanced snippets, they are much more intelligent than simple text insertions.
Checks your speling, too
Of all the things you could write, messages to your users are probably the most influential. That's why Espresso checks spelling as you type in non-code contexts. Whether you're designing a site, coding a web app or writing an article, preventing a few typos is always welcome.
Some features:
The Art of Code
Why choose between beauty and power? Between features and speed? With Espresso, you don't have to. Elegant syntax highlighting, superior navigation, code folding, smart CodeSense, contextual text snippets, spell check, rich extensibility and raw speed: presenting a state-of-the-art text engine for code artists.
Navigator - much more than an ordinary symbol list
Espresso has a unique Navigator that's best compared to CSSEdit's styles list. It shows the hierarchical structure in your documents, no matter how complex. You can even drag around elements to reorganize your code!
Smart snippets
No editor is complete without a way to keep frequently used pieces of text. The sleek Snippets tool does that, and more. You can take advantage of selection placeholders, mirror transformations and tab triggers. Some languages even offer advanced contextual snippets, showing you just what you need.
Code folding - a hidden delight
There is more than meets the eye in the Espresso text editor. Move your mouse over the line number gutter, and a handy code folding ribbon fades in. Quickly collapse blocks of text for a more focused look at code. And the best thing? It works for any language that shows up in the Navigator.
CodeSense knows where you are
Espresso features an immensely powerful rule-based syntax engine, Core Syntax, that transforms your text documents into semantic structure. CodeSense leverages this power to suggest smart contextual completions in a language-independent manner. Any Sugar can easily offer amazing auto-completion support without writing a single line of code. And because completions are based on the advanced snippets, they are much more intelligent than simple text insertions.
Checks your speling, too
Of all the things you could write, messages to your users are probably the most influential. That's why Espresso checks spelling as you type in non-code contexts. Whether you're designing a site, coding a web app or writing an article, preventing a few typos is always welcome.
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askogrand reviewed on 27 Jan 2012
In addition, the new app takes up tons of memory. Copying large chunks of JS? Espresso has a tendency to crash when you do. Managing large projects or large clipboards leads to a lot of performance issues.
CSSEdit was my all-time, favorite program. Espresso was always fine - it certainly looked better than its more powerful competitors, but it was simple. However, Espresso 2 seems to be less than the sum of its parts.
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larsan reviewed on 12 Jan 2012
+1 on missing one-click-validation and not being able to resize the CSS toolbar.
Other than that, the live-preview is a must have.
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Red Dirt reviewed on 17 Dec 2011
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Kris_nx reviewed on 03 Dec 2011
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Macd reviewed on 08 Nov 2011
- no search/filter by CSS rules (come on! how am I supposed to navigate anything but less than a few lines of CSS code?)
- CSS tool panel's usability is much worse than CSSEdit 2 (tools layout/selection and the way it resizes itself
I paid for the software, and it just sits there gathering dust. No idea what devs' priorities are, but so far, as a CSSEdit replacement, it is just a money well wasted.
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Additionally, when dragging an image the editor STILL inserts the full path to the file as opposed to the relative one (which is what should be used when working on a project). In Coda I could drag and drop an image file (or a javascript or css file) to the html document I am working on and it would insert the relative path if I hold the option key. Not so in Espresso, which means that I have to drop the file and delete the useless part of the path.
It also seems there is no way to set a default document mode for new documents, so you have to always manually choose the language you want every time you create a new document.
Aside from that, I think the program needs some performance improvements.
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Makosuke reviewed on 24 Oct 2011
Plusses: The live HTML editor feels smooth and responsive, the code completion works relatively well, code collapsing is nice, and the editor overall feels quite a bit like TextWrangler (which is a huge complement).
On the CSS front, almost all the wonderful, intuitive smoothness of CSSEdit is there and working smoothly--live preview, code completion, and the property editor frame is beefed up and even easier to use than before. Lots of CSS3 goodness in there as well.
And, the app so far has been entirely stable for me.
Minuses: The HTML editor has no one-click validator. Seriously? How is that not a #1 priority feature? Having to copy and paste (or direct upload) my HTML to the W3C validator manually from an all-in-one web development app is kind of ridiculous.
The CSS editor also has no validator, which is even more ridiculous since CSSEdit had one before. Removing an incredible time saver (and frankly workflow necessity) from the replacement app is just unforgivable, and it's almost enough to drive me back to CSSEdit, and has kept me from paying for Espresso, as much as I want to.
Also, the CSS editor has ditched CSSEdit's full color picker for a silly, under featured pop-over dialogue. I can see how the color picker could get confusing switching from one color thing to another, but the lack of a color wheel is a total deal breaker--if you're using the editor to test-drive color schemes, the inability to eyeball complementary colors from a wheel is an absolute deal-breaker, and makes the color selection system borderline useless--I just end up going to another app to pick my color and paste it in, which is ridiculous.
I guess you could keep an image of a color wheel in another app open and use the magnifying glass to grab colors from it, but that's silly.
My only other complaint is that as a full-site workflow, the project system doesn't "feel" right to me--it works well for a hierarchy, but doesn't really seem to do anything for managing a large project or keeping track of complex site structure if you're using Espresso for anything other than template creation or a very simple site of a dozen pages or so. Basically, it doesn't scale well.
Bottom line: So close to being a great app, but removing the color picker and one-click validator that were already in CSSEdit is a total deal breaker, and the lack of a validator in the HTML editor in version 2.0 is ridiculous. Fix that, and I'm buying an upgrade immediately.
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Still a lot of UI tweaks and oversights need to be addressed ...
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Twisted reviewed on 16 Oct 2011
For now, the only good part is the editor: I like the font and the style.
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Velgor242 reviewed on 13 Oct 2011
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Shaahin reviewed on 04 Oct 2011
Regardless of what fans of other apps do here, I still like Espresso. It's one of the lightest apps for simple web design and coding.
Great app.
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Gbuecker reviewed on 03 Oct 2011
Since they have folded CSSEdit into the Espresso, I guess I'll be abandoning CSSEdit for something else. It's a shame.
Genoma rated on 23 Jan 2012
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Jason T. rated on 07 Jan 2012
Ojiad rated on 06 Jan 2012
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MacUpdate Warren rated on 22 Dec 2011
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Egami rated on 09 Dec 2011
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Multimago rated on 30 Nov 2011
weftech rated on 23 Nov 2011
Sebastien Carcone rated on 02 Nov 2011
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Octbit rated on 03 Oct 2011
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Kgx rated on 29 Sep 2011