What's new in version 2014?

Overview

In short - version 2014 is our greatest release ever. It has more features, better performance, less clutter and is 100% modern.

• Our largest and the most challenging release ever.
• Up to date with modern standards - HTML5, CSS3, Web 2.0 philosophy.
• Address all the issues and the best of suggestions from our customers accumulated over the past 5 years.
• 3 times more the amount of new features and improvements than any of our major releases in the past.

Much faster

• Loads by up to 50% faster
• Much faster auto-complete (especially JavaScript)
• Find in files is up to several times faster
• Can open a batch of files instantly without flickers
• Works smoothly with larger files
• Minimized visual flickers
• Preferences window now opens in an instant

Improved text editor

• Improved, more intuitive bracket auto complete
• Support for ZEN-coding-style auto replacement
  
• Pre-defined ZEN-coding-style auto replacement snippets
  Note: Full ZEN-coding development is planned for the first half of 2013
• Esc now closes code hints

Improved syntax highlighting

• Detailed editor color customization
• Support for dark and creamy color schemes
  
• Switchable color schemes - can be saved in a file and shared
• PHP highlighting within JavaScript
• Improved highlighting also for HTML, CSS, JavaScript

Improved Color Picker

• Brilliant color picking circle
• Support for rgb, rgba, hsl and hsla CSS color formats
• Easy color lightness adjustment
• Manual, web-compatible H, S, L, R, G, B value adjustment
  

Improved File Explorer

• Column view is now available
• Works faster

Improved Preview

• Built-in modern, hassle-free Chrome (Webkit) preview
  
• IE9 and IE10 (if installed) preview
• Dual monitor support for the full-screen preview window
• Refresh preview with a shortcut key (F5 by default)
• Integration with the official CSS XRay
  

Visual and eye-candy

• Cleaner, more modern user interface
  
• Choice of several new or good old and forgotten Interface color schemes
• Modern Open/Save dialog windows
• Every dialog window is updated and modernized
• New icons for the most important associated file types
  

Improved FTP/SFTP/FTPS

• FTP background transfers without interrupting work
  
• Added support for FTPS and FTPES
• Added key file support for SFTP
• Open from / Save to FTP window now displays clickable navigation bar
• Improved FTP interface and progress display
• Improved FTP stability
• Rename files with F2
• Under FTP settings, FTP port is now changed automatically when you switch protocol
  

Updated Find and Find in Files

• Proper Perl regular expression support
• Much faster Find in Files
• Sizable Find and Find in Files windows

Dynamic inline TODO support within projects

• Supports standard markers TODO:, FIXME:, CHANGED: placed directly in any file
• Works lightning fast
  

Better Project management

• Quickly edit current Project properties
• Have JavaScript, CSS and PHP libraries parsed and available in auto complete across the whole project
• New folder can be created when creating new Project
• Clickable Project name in status bar

Usability improvements

• Mouse scrolling over panels now works properly
• Smart Copy/Cut - if nothing selected uses the word at cursor
• Smart Paste (default Shift+Ctrl+V) replaces word at cursor
• Mouse hover over file Explorer shows current folder in status bar
• Project window now pre-selects current Project
• Reopen menu self-cleans from missing files
• Easily open Windows explorer from built in File Explorer
• Delete line shortcut now is changeable to satisfy everybody
• Easier settings export/import to/from a single file

Crash recovery system

• Don't lose even 10 seconds worth of coding
• Restore all tabs, documents and cursor positions on recovery
  

Improved customizability

• Toolbars can now be docked on both sides of panels
• External tools can be moved to any menu or toolbar and have keyboard shortcuts

Support for mobile development

• Viewport tag assistant
• Modern CSS media query assistant
  
• Preview on differently sized screen areas
  

Supports CSS3 in great detail

• New, up to date CSS3 definitions
• Detailed CSS3 compatibility watch
• Vendor prefix support in editor, auto complete and inspector
• Improved CSS code Explorer
• CSS formatter now fully supports CSS3
• CSS compressor now fully supports CSS3
• CSS validator now fully supports CSS3
• Built-in, instant CSS prefixizer
  

CSS assistants

• New CSS selector window supporting child and sibling selectors
• One-click automated CSS formatting management (now there is simple bold, italic, font, color etc. that works intelligently based on code)
• CSS shadow assistant
  
• CSS gradient assistant
  
• CSS box shadow expert
  
• New CSS box properties assistant
  

SASS and LESS support

• Syntax highlighiting
• Most CSS editing features
  

New font window with Google font support

• Better selection of the most common web safe fonts
• Font window now shows preview of all fonts
• Font window now assists with using Google fonts
  

Modern HTML features

• Full HTML 5 support
• Updated insert <script> feature
• Updated, quicker CSS link insertion
• Select content between tags now supports nesting
• Updated special characters / entities window
• Deprecated items have been replaced with corresponding CSS
• New UL, OL list wizard
• New TABLE, TD wizards
• New HR wizard
• New P (paragraph) wizard
• Updated form field wizards, added ID field
• Updated new HTML and CSS file wizards
• Fixed and updated all old templates

True portable mode (Rapid PHP & WeBuilder only)

• Changing portable drive letter is no more a problem
• Setup can now install software directly on a portable drive
  

Apache syntax highlighting and .htaccess file support (Rapid PHP & WeBuilder only)

Basic Python support (WeBuilder only)

• Python syntax highlighting
• Python file type support
• Python comment support

Updated SQL features (Rapid PHP & WeBuilder only)

• Updated SQL syntax highlighter
• Now supports SQLite and also MSSQL (experimental)
• Now supports Explain command
• SQL browser now shows all text fields

Plugins

• Write plugins in JavaScript (maybe also C++ and Pascal languages)
• Plugins can insert or process text or create new files
• Place plugins on menus or toolbars

Many other fixes and smaller updates

• Improved: Help system
• Improved: Better warning about locked files
• Improved: Project library auto-refresh on adding new library file
• Improved: Tooltips/hints avoid cursor – no more obstructed code
• Improved: CSS auto complete now offers !important
• Fixed: Select text between brackets
• Fixed: Eliminated slowdown connected with shortcuts and large number of library items
• Fixed: File explorer file list no more jumps/scrolls upon containing long file names
• Fixed: Fixed issue with double-quotes inside inline CSS code (Inspector)
• Fixed: Minor Find in Files bugs
• Fixed: Problems with some Cyrillic symbols
• Fixed: JavaScript auto complete now shows functions beginning with $

Upgrade is easy and your old settings are saved

German, Russian versions are available

Works with Windows 8