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Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

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Oh, man. It's Flash all over again.

I stand by my opinion that flash had a positive impact on the world. Sure, lots of shit abounded during those days but a ton of fun games came out of that environment.

Just Homestar is enough to make your opinion objectively correct.

Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

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This looks nice! What do the end results look like when used on devices with different screen sizes and resolutions?

You can visit the site and resize your browser to get an idea. It just scales it down.

Will a site laid out for a desktop browser even be readable on a phone?

Does a site laid out for a phone like gigantic on a desktop?

How does it react to different aspect ratios?

Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks nice! What do the end results look like when used on devices with different screen sizes and resolutions?

You can visit the site and resize your browser to get an idea. It just scales it down.

I can't be the only one that drags the browser to the side of the screen in order to put it in tablet, and then phone view, and then judges the results!

Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

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I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content. It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages. The results so far have been really promising: - building websites is extremely rapid - very little debugging or verification is needed - it's easy to create beautiful content Techniques t…

For the US market, have you considered accessibility yet? It’s one of the struggles that one has to deal with in a website builder market. As of now, the structure of the website being produced has both SEO (creating search engine and related revenue concerns) and accessibility issues. The later are severe enough to end up in an accessibility lawsuit in the US, if one is running a business worth any non-trivial amoun…

The source of the website shows a nice simple accessibility section, with the content rendered in nice vanilla P and Hx and such tags, with the visual rendering a single easily-ignored SVG below. Presuming those two remain synced, it's probably more accessible than most.

Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

#27
This is how you enable creative web design. Sure, you shouldn't necessarily run your business on something like this (for a multitude of reasons), but for personal websites and prototypes this is great.

When Flash plugins were on the way out everyone always repeated how this would open the door for equally powerful HTML5 tooling. But while HTML5 has gained all the technical capabilities of Flash, nobody has managed to make an authoring tool as good as Adobe Flash. With the loss of Flash we mostly lost the creative websites by people who can't code but are great at visual design. This comes close to enabling that again.

Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

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The page looks cool, but I left immediately once the music started playing. There's a reason most websites stopped doing this.

Yeah auto-music is bad. Sound effects are hard to do too, although when done well they can work (at least for me). Example of a site with sound effects that isn't overwhelming: https://www.joshwcomeau.com/

Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG

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First of all, neat concept. Small point, on desktop I have a horizontal scroll bar for what appears to be intended as a full width site, which is always a bit of a pet peeve.

I understand it's a technology demonstration, I'm struggling to decouple the clash with my aesthetic sense from the technology/framework. There are so many new UI elements (stuff floating, expanding, appearing on hover) that it really puts me off. E.g. on the navigation group that floats on the right, I guess theoretically it's cool that if you hover over "imagine" it offers a small "expand" button and then there's a neat animation as it drops down. All that feels out of place on a website though, as far as I'm used to them.

Can you expand on who you've found resonates with the tool? Is it mostly people who want a print poster on the internet, or similar image-first, single-page users?

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