Inspirational Technology

Hydra 1.1.1

Hydra 1.1.1 has been released. The biggest change in this release is the addition of a live HTML preview window that uses the Safari engine for rendering. I played with it for a few minutes and looks like that will be a really great addition. It works quite well. It's good to finally see some decent applications embedding web browser support on Mac OS X, the old Apple browser component was quite pathetic.

Hydra has become my preferred editor for things like scripts, XML and HTML. It becomes particularly powerful if you use something like TextExtras to add additional capabilities and a script menu to the application. What's really cool is that you can write the scripts in any language and they'll be usable in any Cocoa application that supports NSTextView. It's definitely a geek oriented feature, but it's very handy.