I'm trailing CoffeeCup HTML editor at the moment, and overall it's clearly the most polished of the editors available for less than $500 (Dreamweaver! ).

Out of all the other editors I have trailed the one killer feature I have seen elsewhere but not in CoffeeCup HTML is an undocked (separate window) live preview that can be dragged to a 2nd monitor (in HTML-Kit Tools).

Is there any discussion of adding this feature to CoffeeCup HTML editor? Surely it wouldn't be hard to add...

That is a very good idea. I haven't seen it suggested before, so I'll forward it to the techies.

One thing you could do (Until CC can work in that great idea) is to "Test in browser" and put your browser in the second monitor... Then, when you've made some changes and want to see them, just force a refresh on the browser (Shft-Ctrl-R)... I just tested this out, had never thought about doing this before though. Thanks for bringing it up, made me learn something today.

Yes, that's what I'm doing all the time. I have up to 5 browsers open so that I can view all the little niggling bits.

Yup, I bypass the viewer completely and go directly to viewing in browsers.

I have to agree, but I think maybe letting the Devs know that the reason I bypass the internal viewer is that it actually takes too long, jumps around on the page when making changes and slows the coding process a lot with all it's hesitations at every change. Not as handy as just opening the page after a few changes or so to see if it looks right.

The viewer I think could use some overall updating to make it more smooth when editing. when you have to wait a few seconds every time you make a change (find myself trying to type and paste really fast to beat the view updating to try to get more changes in before the hesitations), it just makes it more hassle than it's worth in usefulness.

Not sure if this is why everyone else bypasses it, but it's definitely why I don't use it. I'd love to sit with it in split frame permanently if it didn't do that so much

It's awesome to see a reception this good to a new idea suggestion by a trial user!

I do use external browsers to check how the page is looking but a well-implemented live preview just can't be beat for efficiency!

Having read Jo Ann's comments I played with the preview in split-screen a little more and I see what she means. I don't know if making the page refresh quicker is easily doable - perhaps a configuration option for how long a typing pause it waits for before refreshing?. But the way the preview resets back to the top of the page after a refresh is quite frustrating and could be easily fixed.

So, if somebody does implement an external window preview, could I suggest they also make it remember the scroll distance and attempt to return to that position after a refresh?

Now THAT would really be a good thing! I think it has been mentioned before by someone too.