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Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator

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Post by okayzedd »

parfe wrote: post #10
okayzedd wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Overall, the idea is to automatically turn a mockup of a page into HTML. This is predicated on the user having a picture of the page they want, whether it be a photoshop drawn file or by hand. In this version, we are outputting floating CSS (with padding, margins, etc) & intelligently named divs, which is intended to save web devs time on getting all that together by hand.

I see the goal, but why is an image required to use the app?

Oh, I see what you are getting at. You are right - an image is unnecessary currently, but we have features implemented that do image analysis that will be available in our next release.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator

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Post by PaulJoslin »

Strangely, I was writing some CSS the other day and thought 'why doesn't something like this exist'.

Glad to see you've produced a working version.

Perhaps the business model should be, free for simple use, but chargeable for more complex sites / designs.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator

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Post by okayzedd »

bmelton wrote: post #9

I guess I should probably assume that the answer is no, but does this work with Internet Explorer 7? Either it doesn't, or I can't figure out how to proceed.

We've been testing against IE8 on Win7, which we've managed to get working.

We've gotten a few exceptions earlier (which we assume were from you :-D) We'll take a look at the logs and try to figure out what went wrong, sorry about that.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator

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Post by Qz »

okayzedd wrote: post #11
parfe wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the goal, but why is an image required to use the app?

Oh, I see what you are getting at. You are right - an image is unnecessary currently, but we have features implemented that do image analysis that will be available in our next release.

I think that even with image related features, an option to just draw divs on a blank page would be welcome and popular.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator

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Post by okayzedd »

joshwa wrote: post #17

Ideas: -- Slice up the background images for me, and include them as css background images -- Hierarchical nesting of divs? (this div is inside this div) -- Integration with some grid framework, e.g. 960gs

thanks! 960gs sounds interesting, looking at it now.

the tool right now automatically does hierarchical nesting if a div is inside another one.

the download zip contains the sliced images and the html to display them in the layout specified, is that what you are refering to for image slicing?

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