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Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by Groxx »

gmurphy wrote: post #38
Groxx wrote: post #35

Very nice visually, and incredibly slick workflow, though it renders pretty slowly at full size. Poking in the code... are you blurring the images in JS at every level? Since you're using webkit + mozilla + IE specific CSS, why not use CSS transforms to do the same thing, but with hardware acceleration? I haven't done it myself, but I'd assume blur is one of the filters possible, and I know you can do those transitio…

Blur is only possible in IE with filter:blur (and I use it if available) - I've been bugging people to add CSS blur to WebKit :)

Yeah, if it's not in there, it seems like a rather large oversight. Blur is ridiculously frequently used, and it's so simple to implement.

In any case, gorgeous work :)

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by mgkimsal »

pretty slick :)

I created a client-side image shrinker - demo at http://kimsal.com/shrinker - github at http://github.com/mgkimsal/jsclientshrinker Perhaps integrating this functionality for images that are 'too big' (whatever file size you decide) would be a nice enhancement? :)

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by Groxx »

bobx11 wrote: post #40

I'm on mac chrome... uploading a hundred or so random pics i saved from reddit/digg... you are going to end up with the most bizarre collection of pics from everyone uploading their own strange test pictures. http://www.dropmocks.com/m1e4 :)

No kidding, and nice collection :D My first round was pretty weird too: http://www.dropmocks.com/mvIz

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by bobx11 »

bobx11 wrote: post #40

I'm on mac chrome... uploading a hundred or so random pics i saved from reddit/digg... you are going to end up with the most bizarre collection of pics from everyone uploading their own strange test pictures. http://www.dropmocks.com/m1e4 :)

Simple, works with all the pics even if the upload takes a while. How long until you run out of s3 storage or have to increase the size of your rackspace cloud server?

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by jellisnyc »

This is really wonderful. Our design studio is constantly posting PS comps for clients. We spend a significant amount of time outputting JPGs, building little galleries, loading the files to our servers, then sharing links to the designs via Basecamp.

Over the years we've come up with a few clever hacks to speed things up. For example, we keep our designs in svn and can quickly push updates live to our servers using a commit hook. But this is all sort of complicated, and I'd much rather use a web-app like this.

Dropmocks is very close to being the perfect tool for our workflow, and I suspect many other design/photo studios would feel the same way. A few features that folks like us would want/need: ability to pw protect galleries, ability to maintain revisions of designs, commenting (by both designer and client), and a way to export images to PDF.

Not sure if you'd target Dropmocks for businesses (such as ours), or if you'd like to have it open to the world and ad-supported. If the former, we're the kind of people that would sign up.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by sachinag »

wccrawford wrote: post #4

Wow, I have to say, that's pretty nice. It doesn't like me trying to drag images around that are already there. I expected it to let me re-order them. But for a 'weekend' project, that's pretty impressive.

I was able to re-order mine. The UX isn't obvious that you can, but it works just the way I thought it would by drag-and-drop.

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by sachinag »

clistctrl wrote: post #24

I'd pay you $24 a year (what i currently give to flikr) if you can compress my large jpg images into something smaller (currently it seems to be maxed at 900k) another one of my favorite features of Flikr is the ability to view exif data. Love the project!

I'd also pay, with one pony request: the ability to brand the experience so that I had my company's logo in the bottom right (for example) and URL mapping (perhaps just to a subdomain).

Re: Review my weekend HTML5 project: DropMocks

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Post by abraham »

Groxx wrote: post #49

A thought, before this potentially spreads far and wide: Should we be spreading this? Or might doing so tank your server / storage / bank account? Do you have any limits in place to protect you?

It is running on App Engine so to an extent it will be free. http://dropmocks.appspot.com/
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