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Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by amvp » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:02 AM UTC

hashbo wrote: post #9

trun wrote: post #6

One minor critique... the example placeholders are of the form "example.com" but it seems to reject domains that are not fully qualified (e.g. " http://example.com ) Neat idea though.

Thx. Really, without the http:// - darn - do you have an example, that would be awesome if you did. I just tried a few and they seem to work. But clearly there’s a bug somewhere so I’d love to squash it!

I think it's because you've specified the type attribute of the input box as URL. Certain newer browsers will force validation on that (latest chrome and ff both do).

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by dmils4 » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:04 AM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #17

OK, great effort getting this up and running but the font rendering is, well, not good. For comparison: http://no.gd/p/snapito-20120217-043956.jpg I set out to tackle this problem a few years ago and while it was easy to rig up stuff to do this in Linux, getting anywhere near the rendering quality that I saw in OS X was impossible. It seems it may still be :-) It was a couple of years ago now and I asked on Twitter i…

Agreed on the rendering being off a bit.

That would be another cool feature for this - to pick your browser/OS to point out browser specifics bugs. There's already http://netrenderer.com/ for IE - but it doesn't let you do anything with the image.

That's obviously a very limited focus for a great general use app, but an idea.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by andygcook » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:04 AM UTC

I'd probably pay you a small monthly fee to automatically take screen shots of a few web pages so I could have an historical record.

I'm sure quite a few web developers, especially startup founders, wish they did a better job keeping track of iterations and design changes.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hv23 » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:06 AM UTC

I would definitely pay for a reliable snapshot service with an API. 100%. Build this, take my money, please!

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:09 AM UTC

andygcook wrote: post #33

I'd probably pay you a small monthly fee to automatically take screen shots of a few web pages so I could have an historical record. I'm sure quite a few web developers, especially startup founders, wish they did a better job keeping track of iterations and design changes.

What a fabulous little idea Andy! Duly noted.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by jusob » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:10 AM UTC

hv23 wrote: post #34

I would definitely pay for a reliable snapshot service with an API. 100%. Build this, take my money, please!

Like Browshot (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3144066) ? :-)

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:12 AM UTC

sycr wrote: post #22

Not bad - definitely a solid start. This happens to be on my own idea list: 11. Full-page screenshot service that doesn't suck I'm happy to be able to tick it off as completed by someone else. :) Edit: I tried sending it a url with Typekit fonts on the page. No dice. I'm assuming that Javascript is turned off?

Javascript is on but this is running on headless Linux without TTF so there’s the rub, clearly the fonts are a big issue so I’m thinking about the whole elegant rendering aspect actually. I think the comments about rendering on OS X actually have some merit if the cost can be kept down.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:13 AM UTC

wilzy wrote: post #20

I think it's struggling to process my request... i entered in " http://snapito.com/?url=news.ycombinator.com&x=0&y=0 into the URL. Looping perhaps?

Yeah snapshotting itself is a big no-no :-) nice try ;-) LOL

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:14 AM UTC

aith wrote: post #19

I tried http://kittiesntitties.tumblr.com and my patience timed out. Maybe 60 seconds and still no image...

It knows your naughty thoughts and is busy thinking nice thoughts.

Or in fact the website has some missing artefacts which confuse Snapito! Consider that bug firmly raised.

Re: Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service

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Post by hashbo » Fri, Feb 17, 2012, 5:16 AM UTC

JoshTriplett wrote: post #16

hashbo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Josh that’s really interesting, what browser were you using, because the app doesn’t say ‘Please enter a URL’ this must be a browser feature working against input type=‘url’. I’d love to know the browser you were using. It certainly shouldn’t require a http:// at the front. Yeah you’re 100% right about the fonts, I definitely plan to sort that out ASAP.

Oh, interesting! I use Firefox 10, and I didn't realize that that validation came from the browser rather than your page.

Josh if you see it still let me know. I just hacked a quick JS fix and tested in FF10 and all seems to be well. But as you know each version of each browser has it’s own little features :-)