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Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#11

Post by nicpottier » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:00 AM UTC

To me the zoomable, unlimited surface part is what makes it super neat. I might actually use it if I had some way of typing text on there..

I suppose for a tablet it is awesome though.

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#12

Post by gren » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:10 AM UTC

If you zoom in too much, it's very lagging. Strange, It should be when zooming out (FF 5.0)

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#13

Post by d0m » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:12 AM UTC

I would definitely use it. Add a [T] icon for texts as writing with the mouse is meh!

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#14

Post by urza » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:13 AM UTC

Infinite zooming is nice. How is it implemented? I would like it as a library.

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#15

Post by melling » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:18 AM UTC

gren wrote: post #12

If you zoom in too much, it's very lagging. Strange, It should be when zooming out (FF 5.0)

I think you're running an old version of Firefox. :-)

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#16

Post by Nickste » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:21 AM UTC

yarone wrote: post #7

Looks great on iPad, well done.

Doh - it seems to crash safari when I go to it on my iPad? iOS 4.3.5

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#17

Post by p4bl0 » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:23 AM UTC

This is awesome, I'd just like to have a tool to write with my keyboard.

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#18

Post by pseudonym » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:27 AM UTC

gren wrote: post #12

If you zoom in too much, it's very lagging. Strange, It should be when zooming out (FF 5.0)

Zooming out too far on chrome makes the input not show up properly, and occasionally crashes the browser window.

Additionally, after zooming out for a bit, I wasn't able to get back down to the layers I was drawing at before.

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#19

Post by jackvalentine » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:28 AM UTC

Nickste wrote: post #16

yarone wrote: post #7

Looks great on iPad, well done.

Doh - it seems to crash safari when I go to it on my iPad? iOS 4.3.5

Working fine on 4.3.5 here, just emailed a link to several friends to see what happens over the next couple of hours with it. The best bit about it is the super-low barrier to entry/sharing.

Re: Show HN: a free multi-user whiteboard with unlimited, zoomable surface

#20

Post by florianguenther » Thu, Aug 18, 2011, 9:29 AM UTC

urza wrote: post #14

Infinite zooming is nice. How is it implemented? I would like it as a library.

The library is already out there, I open sourced it: https://github.com/florianguenther/zui53

(but it's very early beta, bad documented)