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Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by mileszs »

Flow wrote: post #27
olegp wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We are aware of this and are working on an on screen keyboard, kind of like this: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/integrating-virtual-k... To answer the question below: we would need a custom layout to ensure all the curly brackets and other common JS chars are one tap away

Why not use the buit-in keyboard-UI in the iPad?

It looks like the UI uses an editable div. I believe that editable divs do not trigger the built in keyboard on an iPhone, and there's no way to force it to do so.

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by olegp »

drtse4 wrote: post #7
olegp wrote: post #5

yogsototh thank you for submitting this. We are seeing 150 or so concurrent users on the site due to this at the moment. I'm retweeting some of the other online reactions we're getting at https://twitter.com/akshell_com

150? It's only the beginning :)

You were right ;) I'll write a blog post about it once things calm down a bit.

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by riffraff »

awesome work, but FWIW, the first thing I get in the git console for help is two lines of "undefined", and an internal server error for "lol" in the eval screen, using chrome on ubuntu. But you are probably being overloaded ATM so I'll just wait and try again later :)

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by olegp »

ptn wrote: post #35

Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

We're changing that joystick to a VCR like play button.

The commit one being a box hints at a shell or terminal, since we couldn't find an official Git icon. Could maybe put the GitHub Octocat there - what do you think?

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by bdotdub »

olegp wrote: post #28
timinman wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, Heroku was the first. I tried it out. It was fun, but I think they realised that though it was a novel idea, it was not the _Big Idea_, and they replaced it with what they now have. That's pretty inspiring when you consider how much work they threw away and how that decision has been rewarded.

Maybe the timing was just wrong? The browsers are fast enough now and users, including developers, are much more comfortable with web apps.

I think it was less about speed and more about trying to replace peoples' editor / workflow. People are very particular about the tools they use and putting the editor and deployment in the browser doesn't do much in terms of productivity (and probably more counterproductive than anything else)

Screenshot: http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/2/7/write-rails-apps-in-y...

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by olegp »

riffraff wrote: post #36

awesome work, but FWIW, the first thing I get in the git console for help is two lines of "undefined", and an internal server error for "lol" in the eval screen, using chrome on ubuntu. But you are probably being overloaded ATM so I'll just wait and try again later :)

Yes, we're being hammered pretty hard. Thanks for pointing this out, will look into it right away.

Re: Create web apps in JavaScript right from your browser

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Post by olegp »

ptn wrote: post #35

Slick design, however, I don't understand the buttons. Why is 'eval' a joystick and commit a box? Also, whenever I hit Preview I get a 500.

Thanks for pointing out the 500 error occurring for new apps. Existing apps are unaffected and we are looking into it.
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