Ryan McKern

I don't know if I've ever per­son­ally men­tioned this and I know I'm years late to the party, but it bears repeat­ing that CSSEdit and Text­Mate are two of the only appli­ca­tions I miss when I'm on a Linux machine. One could argue that there is always (re: eter­nally) going to be vi/vim or emacs, but in my opin­ion there is no beat­ing the com­bi­na­tion of these two appli­ca­tions for web devel­op­ment or lay­out work.

CSSEdit has the most pow­er­ful and well thought-out inter­face I've ever seen for work­ing with stylesheet prop­er­ties, and its source-and-visual CSS edi­tor is right­fully award-winning. If you've got to spend more than an hour a week in stylesheets, CSSEdit is the only rea­son­able tool for the job.

If you're more of a code­mon­key, Text­Mate is the dar­ling of both the Unix refugee camp that took shel­ter in OS X recently, as well as the Ruby and Rails devel­op­ment com­mu­ni­ties. It's sort of the best damned text-and-code edi­tor ever pro­duced for the MacOS, with the pos­si­ble excep­tion of the long-time heavy­weight, BBE­dit. The bun­dles are well struc­tured, and sup­port almost any lan­guage or vari­ant you can think of.

If you're in the mar­ket for power edi­tors, you could do worse than giv­ing these two a spin. Of course, if you're the "all in one" sort, there is always Coda, by the boys at Panic. While it was slightly raw the last time I used it, if I hadn't already owned a license for Text­Mate and CSSEdit when it came out I'd have prob­a­bly pur­chased it. It's improved con­sid­er­ably, and it is under steady devel­op­ment, but it is extremely web-centric (see the sup­ported lan­guages) and that might be a draw­back for some people.