Coda
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I want to like Coda, but its UI inconsistencies are driving me mad.
I don't use wysiwyg preview for site testing, but it can be handy for jumping to code. You click on an element in preview window and its code gets selected in editor view. Same with DOM breadcrumbs below - click on an element within breadcrumb and code is selected. Simple and can be useful in complex pages.
Dreamweaver does it perfectly.
Coda does it sometimes, ie. for some elements. You can select an element in preview but only some of them will get highlighted in editor. Coda does have breadcrumbs, but clicking on them does nothing. That's useless.Also, Coda has two identically looking editors, yet different. One is a proper normal editor in Edit mode, the other one is in Preview mode, when you press <> (View Source).
From Coda help:
"You can make changes to the page source while viewing it, which will be reflected in the preview. However, these changes are not propagated back to any open editor."Thing is, the preview editor looks just like main editor, so it's easy not to notice. But if you make any changes in it, they get flushed.