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Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by blowski »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #41
ceejayoz wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I use Firefox Nightly, maybe it fixed the issues that are breaking your app? If it's using -webkit prefixed CSS, that's pretty unlikely. > What if I want to look at the web console to see just what breaks in case I know what the issue is? Anyone interested in doing that should be well aware of how to spoof a user agent.

> If it's using -webkit prefixed CSS, that's pretty unlikely. Unsupported CSS features should not affect the functionality of a web app, only its appearance. Emphasis on "should"; far too many web apps end up fundamentally broken when this happens.

While this is true of bank, ecommerce, news, etc, sites, it doesn't apply when the author is just sharing something he's playing around with.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by alemhnan »

catshirt wrote: post #100
alemhnan wrote: post #87

Man, this is amazing. Think about the endless possibilities. On top of that it will be possible to build a library of objects like: "NormalGuy", "Ninja", "Tree" and so on. Then it will be cool to programmatically move them. No Idea if that is feasible or not. Maybe not, but I will say otherwise. Then we could describe an environment in which they could act in a declarative way. We could add simple behaviours shaped o…

forgive me if i've missed any sardonicism, but you might be interested in learning you are describing Flash in thorough detail.

ahahah, yep you are actually right. A big difference, probably the only important one, is that you could read, and modify, the source using the same medium (the browser). So the gap for people to play with that is almost zero. This is probably one of the forces that have allowed the Internet to become what it is today.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by gioele »

The source shows quite clearly why the HTML community needs try to address the adoption of namespaces in HTML5 ASAP, maybe not in the current form but in some simplified form.

I feel uncomfortable with the use of non-namespaced tags and squatting on common terms. For example, cmx.io uses tags like , , and so on. I really would prefer it used something like or , so that it would be possible to mix CMX tags with other libraries that use similar tag names.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by andyjohnson0 »

eggbrain wrote: post #21

Here's my problem. It works, fairly well. But I spent about 15 minutes doing one panel, trying to figure out the minor nuances. I kept thinking to myself "I could do a whole comic in about 5 minutes in photoshop" as I adjusted the person's location, arm, speech, etc (and that was just modifying the characters that were already in the scene). In the end it was just not worth it in my mind. Also, imagine creating somet…

Perhaps a higher-level comic description language that generates the html markup? A bit like the way that LaTeX generates TeX. It could have predefined 'styles' for character appearance, body posture, gestures, etc. Also the ability to embed lower-level html markup in the higher level description.

Perhaps I need to get back to doing some actual work...

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by 0x0 »

znowi wrote: post #10

"STOP! WebKit is required here. The Comix Editor was tested under Chrome. It uses some webkit-specific tricks." WebKit - the new IE.

It's not the new IE, far from it.

You can run Chrome on Linux, Mac and Windows! And at least in theory you can have a go at trying to port the Chromium browser to other platforms, as well.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by [deleted] »

brokentone wrote: post #97
mintplant wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I agree with your message, I don't think "butt hurt" is the most appropriate term you could have used here.

Sure, while yes, these people don't actually seem "offended" as "butt hurt" would somewhat crudely imply, your need to assert such a pedantic issue is the very essence of my original point.

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Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by DigitalJack »

anigbrowl wrote: post #40
jawns wrote: post #6

Wow, combine this with http://xkcdgraphs.com and you've got the ability to do a pretty good Randall Munroe impression!

I thought the Randall Munro personality came from the writing. Stick figures are not the hard part.

but they are the seasoning.
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