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Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by mrbogle » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:51 PM UTC

flixic wrote: post #10

Does "Download as PNG" menu action in File menu work for anyone? That is the only feature I care about, and I haven't seen anything like that before.

Which browser? Will look into...

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by jeremyarussell » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:52 PM UTC

flixic wrote: post #10

Does "Download as PNG" menu action in File menu work for anyone? That is the only feature I care about, and I haven't seen anything like that before.

Seems to work, just need to rename the .part extension to .png or something. I was able to open the saved file with firefox fine anyways.

Edit: I'm on firefox btw.

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by mrbogle » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

yesimahuman wrote: post #8

Nice Ben! Good luck with everything. We will be testing it in the future and will give you feedback :)

Yay. Thanks Max. Can't wait to have you guys in it more :)

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by untog » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

fredsters_s wrote: post #5

aik wrote: post #4

Cool. One of the things that confuses me though are the hotkeys (control+shift+5 turns the div into a button? not very intuitive). Instead of hotkeys, I'd prefer to be told how to do it normally (in some intuitive way).

Do you use Photoshop? It's analogous to the hotkeys there.

Is that a good idea or not, I wonder? Wouldn't people with Photoshop be using it instead of this? Seems like it might be a good idea to target it at non-PS owners.

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by untog » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:54 PM UTC

To be clear- does this generate HTML, or just images that are accurate in terms of what is possible with a browser?

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by kposehn » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:56 PM UTC

Wow.

Just, wow.

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by benmccann » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

It's impossible to use in Chrome 19 on Win 7 because the scrollbars are missing.

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by egonschiele » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:57 PM UTC

untog wrote: post #15

To be clear- does this generate HTML, or just images that are accurate in terms of what is possible with a browser?

apple-shift-e shows an export lightbox with html.

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by fendrak » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:58 PM UTC

This strikes me as a good mix of Balsalmiq (www.balsalmiq.com) and Photoshop.

One of my pet peeves is getting mockups from designers that clearly fail to take the actual abilities of browsers into account. Hopefully, this can change that, while still giving them the design freedom they want!

Re: Show HN: Easel, web design in the browser

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Post by untog » Thu, Jun 14, 2012, 10:59 PM UTC

egonschiele wrote: post #18

untog wrote: post #15

To be clear- does this generate HTML, or just images that are accurate in terms of what is possible with a browser?

apple-shift-e shows an export lightbox with html.

Then I'm a little dubious about that- given that everything appears to be absolutely positioned. Reminds me of the Adobe web design tool before they bought Macromedia (anyone remember the name of it?)

As a mock-up tool, it's great.