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Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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Nice. One thing that's obviously missing is a way to link to the image you've just created. I have a nice looking photo sitting there, but seemingly the only way to share it is to view source, copy, paste into a new HTML file and upload it to a server somewhere. Have it start each new session at a random URL that you can share, and this will get very popular very fast.

Thanks for the comment. Will definitely add functionality for sharing images. I also just purchased textify.it and will be moving this project there.

Re: Textify: Convert images to HTML text

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I did something similar in 1997 (!): http://home.wtal.de/ss/html/pnmtohtml/baby_032.html What do you think?

That's awesome. It's amazing how much we could actually do back in the days of Netscape and IE version 4 and below. Performance on the machines of the day was actually better than modern HTML5 stuff on modern hardware because the DOM was so much simpler and tuned toward performance. I could actually watch the little games I made using DIVs/LAYERs and pixel art images slow down during the 2000s as new browsers came ou…

I had a similarly amusing moment years back when I saw a bit-blit demo in the browser. All this excitement about something that was state of the art on Commodore 64s.

(And yes, I do understand how the ubiquitous nature of the web actually makes this important... but I still find it funny!)

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