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

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post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's definitely in the long term plans, but honestly in the five years I've been working on this, not one person has ever complained about that type of issue. And, the website looks amazing in fullscreen mode on a big monitor, way better than other sites I've seen (within my design limits).

Being a noxious frontend dev, the first thing I tested was whether you supported responsive. What I found was that you load a different site based on the viewport size (rather than dynamically changing on resize) which I think is a perfectly serviceable approach to this. Cool project!

Thanks!

It's so fast to build pages that building separate versions is much faster than building a single responsive WP page (for example).

Most of the time, both versions (or more if needed) are in a single Illustator doc and it's quite simple to maintain both at once.

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

#62

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…

Absolutely ingenious. I love what you've done here

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

#63
post #33

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 t…

Macromedia Flash era was the best for authoring IMO. But I was just a hobbyist, didn't use it professionally.

This was a terrible era. Specifically because of sites that had no business using it making their whole site flash. Like restaurants.

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

#64
post #49

The workflow idea behind this is super innovative-- From your SVG program directly to the web. Of course some bugs to work out, but for a new idea, damn.

Thank you so much. Lots of bugs to work out, and mainly I need to make it much simpler.

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

#66

Can't select text or use keyboard tabbing?

You can select text unless there's a link over it — you might have tried in a section that is a link to somewhere.

What do you do with keyboard tabbing? Do you mean form fields? For that it works fine, unless I just made an HTML mistake.

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

#67
post #7

Is there any UI framework build on SVG?

There's not right now but I'm hoping to create one.

One of the nice things about this project is that it's shown me to what extent the internet has become based on existing content.

HTML is such a pain in the ass for design that almost all projects are just recycled — variations on themes, existing controls etc.

SVG is much more open, and of course that might be abused, like Flash.

To be clear, I do understand that usability is key and that websites should function in a transparent and understandable manner.

Personally my principle is that the visitor should be empowered at all times.

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

#68
post #30

Websites that play sound upon loading cause me to quit immediately.

Fixed. That was a mistake — I had been experimenting with YT embeds, and I accidentally left the autoplay in (it was broken in my own browser so I didn't notice).

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

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post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Macromedia Flash era was the best for authoring IMO. But I was just a hobbyist, didn't use it professionally.

This was a terrible era. Specifically because of sites that had no business using it making their whole site flash. Like restaurants.

There were definitely a lot of bad Flash sites, but there were some amazingly creative, artistic sites too.

I could list a bunch of links, but of course none of them work anymore.

Perhaps I could require some sort of SVG Licence to use Svija, or an oath to usability ;-)

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