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A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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Re: A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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Super cool! This is a great idea and very useful for those of us who use CSS widgets as standins for graphical assets. I will say that I also have trouble resizing the elements using Firefox, thought it all looks good in Chrome.

+1 on compliment and the Firefox bug! it's making my day!

Re: A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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The resize functionality doesn't work very well on macOS + Firefox. Once I place an element, I can't easily make changes to it, for some reason (possibly due to adblock?)

It's not adblock. Resize is very weird and janky on my un-blocked firefox.

Re: A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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Nice interface. It feels like I'm using Illustrator.

I suppose the intended use case might be very stylized HTML elements? Like designing a really fancy button?

In situations where your intent is to display a stand alone image, rather than add style to an element, am I right in thinking SVG is the better choice? I see HN posts where people create whole paintings out of CSS and HTML, and I always thought the point was to marvel at the novelty of this approach. Do people really think everyday web graphics should be stored as CSS, rather than SVG? How come I don't see more sites using SVG?

Zerodivs.com actually links to one of these: https://a.singlediv.com/ Is there something I'm missing here?

Re: A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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Nice interface. It feels like I'm using Illustrator. I suppose the intended use case might be very stylized HTML elements? Like designing a really fancy button? In situations where your intent is to display a stand alone image, rather than add style to an element, am I right in thinking SVG is the better choice? I see HN posts where people create whole paintings out of CSS and HTML, and I always thought the point was…

In my experience, CSS is more consistently supported between rendering engines. SVG is a shitshow once you start adding filters.

Re: A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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post #7

Nice interface. It feels like I'm using Illustrator. I suppose the intended use case might be very stylized HTML elements? Like designing a really fancy button? In situations where your intent is to display a stand alone image, rather than add style to an element, am I right in thinking SVG is the better choice? I see HN posts where people create whole paintings out of CSS and HTML, and I always thought the point was…

In my experience, CSS is more consistently supported between rendering engines. SVG is a shitshow once you start adding filters.

Thank you. I heard SVG was not well supported cross browser a few years ago, but I presumed things have improved since then. Guess I was wrong.

Re: A UI editor for single-element CSS illustrations

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

In my experience, CSS is more consistently supported between rendering engines. SVG is a shitshow once you start adding filters.

Thank you. I heard SVG was not well supported cross browser a few years ago, but I presumed things have improved since then. Guess I was wrong.

They have improved, but they haven't improved consistently. The spec is just too enormous.
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