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Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by sorbus »

jscore wrote: post #38
aw3c2 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tools are irrelevant, you could do that with many alternatives to those proprietary programs. Contact details are on the bottom of the page, "imprint", if you still feel like you want to know.

Wow, thanks for very helpful and useful reply. I wasn't aware we were having a philosophical discussion on what's irrelevant or not in life.

Asking what tool was used to make an image is, often, like asking which text editor was used to write a program. Unless whatever tool they used had some unique capabilities to make it easy to create images in the same style, it's irrelevant (because someone skilled enough to do it with one tool could do it with another).

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by jbail »

franck wrote: post #27
mathias wrote: post #14

Calling it an “HTML5 website” is a bit of an overreaction IMHO. Other than the DOCTYPE, there’s not much “HTML5” to it. It’s just good old HTML, JavaScript and CSS, wrapped together in a document that happens to use the HTML5 DOCTYPE.

True. It seems HTML5 is the new way of saying "Not using Flash".

...or what we used to call DHTML.

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by jscore »

sorbus wrote: post #51
jscore wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, thanks for very helpful and useful reply. I wasn't aware we were having a philosophical discussion on what's irrelevant or not in life.

Asking what tool was used to make an image is, often, like asking which text editor was used to write a program. Unless whatever tool they used had some unique capabilities to make it easy to create images in the same style, it's irrelevant (because someone skilled enough to do it with one tool could do it with another).

Ok, so you're saying that you wouldn't have any problem manipulating some complicated photos (changing backgrounds, masking out certain elements, changing color levels, creating alpha mask, adding drop shadows to text, touching up a person's face, blending several layers together so that the layer below comes through to the layer above, etc, etc) in Microsoft Paint instead of using Photoshop?

After all, they're both just "text editors" as per your example.

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by arethuza »

J3L2404 wrote: post #20
jacquesm wrote: post #15

If this is the future of the web count me out.

That seems a little harsh, he obviously has something interesting as it is on the top spot of HN, although he should have finished the product first. Coming soon usually elicits the same response, ...yawn... move on.

But it's top because of the design of this "Coming Soon" page - not because of what the product does.

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by whiskers »

I love the idea - the style, the artwork, the way the story progresses...

However I think that clicking on the "scroll" popup should either:

- Cause a slow continuous scroll all the way to the bottom of the page

- or (even better) take you between each speech bubble and reappear so it can be clicked again.

A really unique approach. It was nice to see something genuinely fresh and captivating instead of the usual "Web 2.0" style sign up pages.

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by axod »

franck wrote: post #27
mathias wrote: post #14

Calling it an “HTML5 website” is a bit of an overreaction IMHO. Other than the DOCTYPE, there’s not much “HTML5” to it. It’s just good old HTML, JavaScript and CSS, wrapped together in a document that happens to use the HTML5 DOCTYPE.

True. It seems HTML5 is the new way of saying "Not using Flash".

It's just the latest buzzword to mean 'New!'. Couple of years ago everything was 'ajax'.

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by sushi »

mathias wrote: post #14

Calling it an “HTML5 website” is a bit of an overreaction IMHO. Other than the DOCTYPE, there’s not much “HTML5” to it. It’s just good old HTML, JavaScript and CSS, wrapped together in a document that happens to use the HTML5 DOCTYPE.

Speaking of DOCTYPE, it seems there is no DOCTYPE on HN.

Re: Ben the Bodyguard: Gorgeous HTML5 Website

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Post by tedunangst »

jscore wrote: post #53
sorbus wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asking what tool was used to make an image is, often, like asking which text editor was used to write a program. Unless whatever tool they used had some unique capabilities to make it easy to create images in the same style, it's irrelevant (because someone skilled enough to do it with one tool could do it with another).

Ok, so you're saying that you wouldn't have any problem manipulating some complicated photos (changing backgrounds, masking out certain elements, changing color levels, creating alpha mask, adding drop shadows to text, touching up a person's face, blending several layers together so that the layer below comes through to the layer above, etc, etc) in Microsoft Paint instead of using Photoshop? After all, they're both…

Considering all the effects are done via CSS, there's no reason the images couldn't have been made in MS Paint.
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