Espresso 1.1 arrives with 11-day giveaway

Lack of project-wide Find and Replace makes it unusable for me.

For what it's worth, your post assumes that people know what Espresso is, and I'm here to say that not everyone does. Just a little cc :)

I think I'll stay away given how unresponsive they've been in development in the past. I'll put my money on Coda, I trust Panic.

I had the version that came with MacHeist. I'm glad I didn't pay actual cash for it. It was unstable to the point of useless (on two machines, so environment wasn't an excuse). Lots of crashing from unresolved references in common use scenarios. I was amazed that they were actually asking money for it.

I got this with a Macheist bundle. It seemed pretty weak at the time and when Snow Leopard came out I checked their forums for support and was quite disappointed that there were issues with no resolution. I've recently started using Coda and really like it.

I'll give Espresso another shot, but I'm not optimistic.

yes, they posted that on their website in Aug. 2009 and 4 months later...still terrible

it's nice of them to release an update on espresso though, especially for those of us that have had a non-functioning app for so long (without any replies to emails or requests for help)

I just updated and I'm setting up a trial project (simple html edit on an old clients site). While I love Coda there are a number of issues that just drive me crazy and Espresso takes care of. The only thing holding me back before was the lack of the project view and a few bugs that made it not work for me. Hopefully we'll see some nice updates in the future and have a nice Coda vs Espresso rivalry going on!

"Few people know this, but MacRabbit was a one-student venture for a long time. It was born out of a love for beautiful design and software, and slowly grew from a hobby to something resembling a one-man company. For Espresso, a great friend stepped in to become the second developer/rabbit. The rush of creating an awesome new app made us announce early, but then life caught up with us and took revenge.

Lénaïc and I started our last year at university after the announcement, which turned out to come with a crazy workload while feedback for Espresso was reaching unprecedented volumes. Long story short, juggling this double life led to the current situation where people wonder if MacRabbit lives. This is unacceptable. I would like to apologize for the situation and commit to a brand new MacRabbit.

We will soon both be working on our software full-time, which means the extreme interference caused by our academic lives is at an end. MacRabbit 2.0 starts today, but it will take a while to rectify the mistakes 1.0 made. At the moment we are systematically going through our e-mail feedback and while we may not be able to reply to every single feature idea, please be sure we’re taking note of your requests."

That was posted a month or more ago, just saying.

interesting how bigger companies/developers get nailed to the wall for even a little blip in support...

then a place like this who has the worst support available (zero) gets so much praise

granted they made a decent product (cssedit)... but their complete lack of support and answering even sales emails is a joke

Glad they've updated it. It really is a good piece of software - I use it exclusively for web development. I'd highly recommend it, and this update is great from my experience with it so far.