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May 30

Hands-on: Web development on the go with Diet Coda for iPad

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Panic has officially released Coda 2, a major new version of the companys award-winning Web development application. Panic also took the opportunity to launch Diet Coda, a new lightweight Web development tool for the iPad. We did some hands-on testing with Diet Coda to see how it stacks up for mobile editing.

Diet Coda is lightweight tool that includes remote file management capabilities, text editing, and terminal access. These capabilities are tied together in a distinctive interface that is crisp, expressive, and well-designed. The core functionality is well-implemented, but the feature set is sparse in places and we found a handful of bugs that detracted from the quality of the user experience.

Diet Coda starts at the site list, which shows all of your websites in a grid. Each one is displayed with a graphical thumbnail of the home page. The user can add a new site by clicking the plus button.

Site configuration is a relatively straightforward process: the user inputs a server address, credentials, and remote folder. Diet Coda can connect to a server via FTP, SFTP, and FTP with SSL. The user can also optionally specify the SSH server address and login credentials to use for terminal access with each site.

After the user connects to a server, Diet Coda will display a dual-pane file management view. Remote file management is an area where Diet Coda really shines. The feature is designed in a really compelling, intuitive, and functional wayexactly what you would expect from the people who built Transmit. The right-hand column displays information about the selected file or folder and provides buttons for performing file management operations.

The left side of the interface displays the filesystem. The filesystem view is modeled after the Miller columns layout used in the Mac OS X finderas the user descends through the folder hierarchy, the contents of each selected folder will be displayed in a new vertical column. The column display can be dragged back and forth horizontally, making it easy to get back up to higher levels of the directory structure.

The program allows users to move, duplicate, delete, and rename files. Except for renaming, those operations can also optionally be performed in batch mode. Diet Coda also allows the user to adjust file permissions, a feature that is supported with a clever finger-friendly user interface.

The only major disappointment with basic file management in Diet Coda is that the move operation doesn't appear to allow the user to interactively choose the destinationthe program requires the user to type (or paste) the path of the destination.

I also encountered a minor bug that occurs sometimes when attempting to delete a folder. If you have selected an item within the folder and then go back and select the folder itself, hitting the delete button will often delete the item instead of the parent folder as expected.

Diet Coda comes with a built-in editor for modifying files. It supports syntax highlighting and basic auto-completion on CSS, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, and Ruby. The support for HTML and CSS is reasonably good. CSS and JavaScript content that are embedded in an HTML document are treated properly. The syntax highlighting uses good colors that are easy on the eyes but still have plenty of contrast.

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