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Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by urin »

8mobile wrote: post #28

Thanks for sharing but I don't find big differences with the currently existing "live preview" and other plug-ins. Can you explain what are the features of your Web Visual Editor? Thanks

A notable feature is the ability to synchronize code selection with visual selection in the preview. Since this extension has minimal functionality, the codebase is very small, making future expansions easy. It is designed to reflect changes made in the preview back to the code, so enhancing the editing capabilities within the preview may be beneficial in the future.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by phero_cnstrcts »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #18

Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

Tailwind is reviving the style attribute.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by pjerem »

urin wrote: post #21
vivzkestrel wrote: post #18

Are we trying to reinvent web development? Last few years have been wild. We abandoned HTML CSS and JS websites that used to work just fine and ran after frontend component frameworks and now the circle is getting completed by building tools and extensions we had 20 yrs ago

There are complex reasons behind my development of this. To be honest, I don’t think the editing functionality of this tool is particularly useful. I believe the real-time preview and element selection features are the ones that offer broader utility. I am considering making the editing feature disabled by default and allowing it to be enabled through settings in the future.

I don’t think it was meant to criticize your work :)

It’s just fun to see that we (here : you) are reinventing tools that everyone used 20 or 30 years ago.

I remember making my first websites in Dreamweaver. I remember it being hated by "pro" developers but this plus an FTP client (which was integrated IIRC) was enough for teenager me to be live on the internet.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by Galanwe »

zeroq wrote: post #7
whalesalad wrote: post #4

we've come full circle - macromedia dreamweaver had this in 2001

Wait till you hear about Typescript, you know adding types to ECMAScript, like Macromedia did some 20 years ago. :) Being in the industry for 20+ years and starting as a teenager making games in Flash it makes really hard for me to treat webdev seriously with all their revolutionary innovations. At work I often encounter a resistance to a tech or solution I propose, because "there hasen't been any substational contri…

> how do you calculate hypotenuse, because it's been a long time since Pythagoras made the last commit.

Also, Pythagoras should be rewritten in Rust for safety.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by defrost »

almostgotcaught wrote: post #29
zeroq wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait till you hear about Typescript, you know adding types to ECMAScript, like Macromedia did some 20 years ago. :) Being in the industry for 20+ years and starting as a teenager making games in Flash it makes really hard for me to treat webdev seriously with all their revolutionary innovations. At work I often encounter a resistance to a tech or solution I propose, because "there hasen't been any substational contri…

> how do you calculate hypotenuse, because it's been a long time since Pythagoras made the last commit. Asinine - everything advances and needs maintenance over time, even geometry. I invite you to try building a game without using quaternions or projective (ie non-euclidean) geometry. Edit: does hn award points based on contrariness? Or is it just that people on hn think they're super clever with their contrary poin…

quaternions - 1843, Hamilton

projective geometry - 1420's but big in the 19th Century.

These are things I used heavily programming earth mapping systems in the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. Principal reference text was from the 1920s.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by almostgotcaught »

defrost wrote: post #36
almostgotcaught wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how do you calculate hypotenuse, because it's been a long time since Pythagoras made the last commit. Asinine - everything advances and needs maintenance over time, even geometry. I invite you to try building a game without using quaternions or projective (ie non-euclidean) geometry. Edit: does hn award points based on contrariness? Or is it just that people on hn think they're super clever with their contrary poin…

quaternions - 1843, Hamilton projective geometry - 1420's but big in the 19th Century. These are things I used heavily programming earth mapping systems in the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. Principal reference text was from the 1920s.

... The guy I responded to is saying Pythagoras is good enough. Do you know what year Pythagoras died?

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by kmarc »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #12
whalesalad wrote: post #4

we've come full circle - macromedia dreamweaver had this in 2001

When I was young, I learned HTML with Nvu, if anyone else remembers that.

I do! Wow, what a flashback. I think it was formed from Mozilla's built in editor, and later on died quite quickly and was forked under a different name, which, in turn, died quickly.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by a57721 »

pjerem wrote: post #33
urin wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are complex reasons behind my development of this. To be honest, I don’t think the editing functionality of this tool is particularly useful. I believe the real-time preview and element selection features are the ones that offer broader utility. I am considering making the editing feature disabled by default and allowing it to be enabled through settings in the future.

I don’t think it was meant to criticize your work :) It’s just fun to see that we (here : you) are reinventing tools that everyone used 20 or 30 years ago. I remember making my first websites in Dreamweaver. I remember it being hated by "pro" developers but this plus an FTP client (which was integrated IIRC) was enough for teenager me to be live on the internet.

The nostalgia hit me, I remember before Dreamweaver, there was Netscape Composer, W3C Amaya, and similar software.

Re: Show HN: A VSCode Extension to edit HTML visually in real-time

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Post by defrost »

almostgotcaught wrote: post #37
defrost wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

quaternions - 1843, Hamilton projective geometry - 1420's but big in the 19th Century. These are things I used heavily programming earth mapping systems in the mid 1980s to mid 1990s. Principal reference text was from the 1920s.

... The guy I responded to is saying Pythagoras is good enough. Do you know what year Pythagoras died?

Does that invalidate his theorem (that he cribbed from the Babylonians)?
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