Just a note on your image file extension. It doesn't accept .tif (only .tiff). Some programs will save it as *.tif by default. Might want to check other possible formats too.
Thanks PureSin, we'll definitely look into that :)
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Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator
#22Ideas: -- 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?
Ah I didn't see that-- just saw the generated code. Nice. You might want to add that to step 3 on the homepage, and have the button say "download code and images".
Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator
#23Make your HTML output lowercase. It's the predominant style these days. Also agreed that drawing divs from scratch (no image upload) could be useful.
We've fixed the uppercase html, if you modify your mock and preview the code, you'll see the update.
Thank you for the feedback!
Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator
#24Ideas: -- 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
IMHO you can't integrate 960gs here. This generator generates quasi-absolute positioned elements. There is no ltr flow of the elements.
EDIT: There is a nice 960.gs layout generator available for some time now. http://960ls.atomidata.com/
Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator
#25I 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.
No worries. I was at the office is all. I don't voluntarily use IE7 for the fun of it. ;-)
Re: Ask HN: Review my app, LayoutGenerator
#26Hey, cool idea in theory. But I'm not a huge fan. The markup it generates isn't really that clean, and the overall process isn't very fluid. I personally believe that we will not get to a point where this can be done by a machine for at least a few years.
But best of luck with it...!