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As soon as webkit is updated to have better support for OTF fonts urlbox will become so much better
No flash plugin. That was a hard to solve problem for me I would love to pay for. What they are offering does not look competitive.
I know how to get Flash working in case you're interested. I'm assuming here that you (and they) are both using Webkit2png. In that case what you do is install Flash ([package-manager] install flash-plugin) then... Well, the gist of it is that once you have Flash installed you need to enable plugins (-F plugins -F javascript) as well as set the wait ('-w 10' for 10 second wait before shot's taken) option so that the…
For a single-purpose app like this, at least it could do a better job at rendering the screenshots, if you ask me. I tried it out on my site (no custom web-fonts, pretty standard stuff) and the font-rendering looks awful: http://cl.ly/image/3S2E3Z3i412n
It's probably related to linux font rendering.
No flash plugin. That was a hard to solve problem for me I would love to pay for. What they are offering does not look competitive.
This is a good idea, I actaully created something similar using PhantomJS the issue is web fonts there isn't a solution to rendering typekit webfonts using a headless webkit implementation see http://code.google.com/p/phantomjs/issues/detail?id=247 for more details. As soon as webkit is updated to have better support for OTF fonts urlbox will become so much better
This is a great idea. I was actually working on something similar yesterday! The beauty of this is that it has so many uses! I think all the haters need to chill and think about this for a minute. Yeah, it's probably a wrapper around webkit2png but outside of HN people... 1. Don't know how to use the terminal 2. Can't install webkit2png themselves (there are a lot of things that can go wrong - just ask me because the…
Thanks for the comment. You're absolutely right - There are companies / developers out there that just want to add this feature to their site without spending a lot of time and resources on it. urlbox takes care of capturing, storage, caching, thumbnailing and also optionally wrapping in mobile devices
Is this copyright infringement? They use apple.com as an example. The grabbing process clearly doesn't happen on the client side. Even if it did, what would be the implications of using Apples website, logos and trademarks embedded in your content without user interaction?
This is a great idea. I was actually working on something similar yesterday! The beauty of this is that it has so many uses! I think all the haters need to chill and think about this for a minute. Yeah, it's probably a wrapper around webkit2png but outside of HN people... 1. Don't know how to use the terminal 2. Can't install webkit2png themselves (there are a lot of things that can go wrong - just ask me because the…