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

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Post by mkl »

lucian1900 wrote: post #94
mrbogle wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the feedback. The apple keys are part of the design so sadly wont change. Shift should work for selecting multiple items, so thats a bug. We admittedly haven't done much testing on other platforms. Grouping and making elements should definitely be in the right click menu. There are some (probably esoteric) icons on the inspector/property panel for these functions. We'll look into the chrometouch extension…

What do you mean "part of the design"? Showing keys you know very well many of your users can't type is part of your design?

I think he means it's part of the demo page, which must be static. The keys in the menus say "ctrl".

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

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Post by jkeel »

My favorite part is the HTML/CSS snippet generation. Many times I've had to play around with the CSS in Chrome inspector to get what I wanted. While it's not hard, I do like to be able to mock something up like this and then get the css.

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

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Post by mrgreenfur »

splatcollision wrote: post #98

Congratulations! Glad to see more people attempting this type of thing. The demo content design is pretty nice. Some good things in Easel, but I have lots of problems with all the tiny little controls. Also it's an interesting decision to use a canvas element instead of the DOM. Without solving the overall page layout issue, this is a nice drawing tool like others have mentioned, and kudos to the technical and design…

This is a pretty incredible "project". The styling is a little old-school, but the product is incredible. Are you planning to make this bigger? :)

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

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Post by jurre »

splatcollision wrote: post #98

Congratulations! Glad to see more people attempting this type of thing. The demo content design is pretty nice. Some good things in Easel, but I have lots of problems with all the tiny little controls. Also it's an interesting decision to use a canvas element instead of the DOM. Without solving the overall page layout issue, this is a nice drawing tool like others have mentioned, and kudos to the technical and design…

This is very impressive, nice job! If I can give you one piece of advice though it would be to hire a designer. You need to give people the feeling that they will be able to build a beautiful website with your product and I almost dismissed it by looking at your landing page's design, it was only when I decided to check out the demo that I was convinced.

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

#106

Post by mwill »

I was a a bit bummed when I realised that slick scrolling is canvas. It feels outstanding on my mac trackpad. It's a very 'appy' web-app, if that makes sense.

It wasn't until I read the comments here that I realised that this doesn't actually export html/css. It's still a downright slick mockup tool.

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

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Post by salimmadjd »

splatcollision wrote: post #98

Congratulations! Glad to see more people attempting this type of thing. The demo content design is pretty nice. Some good things in Easel, but I have lots of problems with all the tiny little controls. Also it's an interesting decision to use a canvas element instead of the DOM. Without solving the overall page layout issue, this is a nice drawing tool like others have mentioned, and kudos to the technical and design…

Nice stuff man. As other have said it, the design is old school. Looking at your personal site, I know do design work as well. But I think we can all benefit from additional design help. Also, can you include the common grid marks, 960, 1280, etc.

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

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Post by mrbogle »

schrijver wrote: post #96
lucian1900 wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean "part of the design"? Showing keys you know very well many of your users can't type is part of your design?

Yes how does that work? Strange statement! I second lucian1900s suggestion.

Sorry for the confusion. It's just what mkl said: the apple keys are hardcoded into the demo page.

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

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Post by mrbogle »

mwill wrote: post #106

I was a a bit bummed when I realised that slick scrolling is canvas. It feels outstanding on my mac trackpad. It's a very 'appy' web-app, if that makes sense. It wasn't until I read the comments here that I realised that this doesn't actually export html/css. It's still a downright slick mockup tool.

It does export pieces of the design in html/css.
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