37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
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Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#2If you're wondering if this still works in a non-iPad browser... it doesn't. I was curious if I could still draw with the mouse.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#3Seems to me like a free version of 37signal's iPad app Draft. Much simplier idea but still awesome.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#4Seems like a remake of their Draft app with a chalky UI.
To really make a mobile web app be cool, it's still gotta work on the web. Otherwise, it's not cool. I'm making that a rule right now. Visiting a URL that says I have to be on an iPad is not cool. It's like saying I need to install a plugin that costs $500.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#5Seems like a remake of their Draft app with a chalky UI. To really make a mobile web app be cool, it's still gotta work on the web. Otherwise, it's not cool. I'm making that a rule right now. Visiting a URL that says I have to be on an iPad is not cool. It's like saying I need to install a plugin that costs $500.
I don't think they care if if it's 'cool'... It's just an experiment/toy that they decided to blog about.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#6And here's the magic: http://chalk.37signals.com/chalk.js http://chalk.37signals.com/stylesheets/chalk.css
It's fun to look at this stuff, especially from the perspective of someone who hasn't gotten into HTML5 yet.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#7Seems like a remake of their Draft app with a chalky UI. To really make a mobile web app be cool, it's still gotta work on the web. Otherwise, it's not cool. I'm making that a rule right now. Visiting a URL that says I have to be on an iPad is not cool. It's like saying I need to install a plugin that costs $500.
I don't think they care if if it's 'cool'... It's just an experiment/toy that they decided to blog about.
Yeah, I don't care either. I'm saying it's not cool because I can't even play around with it.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#8Is 37signals treading water? The frequency of these worthless blog posts attempting to draw attention to themselves has been increasing. They say they have a lot of customers but something feels wrong.
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#9Is 37signals treading water? The frequency of these worthless blog posts attempting to draw attention to themselves has been increasing. They say they have a lot of customers but something feels wrong.
David races sports cars.[1][2] I'm pretty sure they're doing just fine.
1: http://www.youtube.com/user/dhhracing
2: http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/07/pagani-zonda-hh-commissio...
Re: 37signals' Chalk: a fun little browser-based app for iPad
#10And here's the magic: http://chalk.37signals.com/chalk.js http://chalk.37signals.com/stylesheets/chalk.css It's fun to look at this stuff, especially from the perspective of someone who hasn't gotten into HTML5 yet.
it would be super easy to add support for mouse events.
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They are attaching events using jQuery's bind method. Like:
canvas.bind("touchstart", ...
You can add multiple events into bind. To add support for mouse events, you'd just add in the requisite mouse events, like so:
canvas.bind("touchstart mousedown" ...
canvas.bind("touchmove mousemove" ...
canvas.bind("touchend mouseup" ...
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