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Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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Great, now it's even easier for people like me with no talent for design to make horrendous UIs. Edit: For a more helpful comment, they really need some things in there. You now, TSpinEdits (any Delphi users out there?). Number controls.

A lot of these services bring back some horrible memories from Geocities days.

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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post #21

Great, now it's even easier for people like me with no talent for design to make horrendous UIs. Edit: For a more helpful comment, they really need some things in there. You now, TSpinEdits (any Delphi users out there?). Number controls.

A lot of these services bring back some horrible memories from Geocities days.

CSS3 and HTML5 brings back bad memories. It's easy to abuse, I've done it myself intentionally here: http://cats4gold.net/ostar/ - CSS 2D transforms, CSS background-size, CSS3 selectors, HTML5 audio and JavaScript.

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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Great, now it's even easier for people like me with no talent for design to make horrendous UIs. Edit: For a more helpful comment, they really need some things in there. You now, TSpinEdits (any Delphi users out there?). Number controls.

I've gotta agree on this one. Generally all I can think when I use browser-based design tools is how much faster/easier it would be for me to go into Photoshop or better, the code itself. I think the biggest flaw in these apps is they start people with either an amateur design or a blank template instead of exposing the grids and guides that define a website (and further define the limitations of web design) right of…

Haha, I'm honored (and slightly amazed) that people are using it in production.

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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post #23
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I've gotta agree on this one. Generally all I can think when I use browser-based design tools is how much faster/easier it would be for me to go into Photoshop or better, the code itself. I think the biggest flaw in these apps is they start people with either an amateur design or a blank template instead of exposing the grids and guides that define a website (and further define the limitations of web design) right of…

Haha, I'm honored (and slightly amazed) that people are using it in production.

Hey, perhaps I'm missing something, but could you add a button to show the styles on an element, somehow? Thanks!

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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post #21

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A lot of these services bring back some horrible memories from Geocities days.

CSS3 and HTML5 brings back bad memories. It's easy to abuse, I've done it myself intentionally here: http://cats4gold.net/ostar/ - CSS 2D transforms, CSS background-size, CSS3 selectors, HTML5 audio and JavaScript.

Love it. Here's another great demonstration of CSS3's potential for abuse: http://davisparker.com/OHGOD/index.html

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of these services bring back some horrible memories from Geocities days.

CSS3 and HTML5 brings back bad memories. It's easy to abuse, I've done it myself intentionally here: http://cats4gold.net/ostar/ - CSS 2D transforms, CSS background-size, CSS3 selectors, HTML5 audio and JavaScript.

laughs

As an aside, have you tried any of those binaural beats? Is that part of the joke, or something that you actually enjoy?

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

CSS3 and HTML5 brings back bad memories. It's easy to abuse, I've done it myself intentionally here: http://cats4gold.net/ostar/ - CSS 2D transforms, CSS background-size, CSS3 selectors, HTML5 audio and JavaScript.

laughs As an aside, have you tried any of those binaural beats? Is that part of the joke, or something that you actually enjoy?

Oh I've tried it. It's not really as good as they claim, I reckon a good part of it is placebo.

By the way, the site is actually a collaboration between me and two others. Orangestar had put up some binaural beat files on his website, so cats4gold and I jokingly made this site in his name to promote them. And then it kinda grew fr m there.

If you enter the site, you'll notice it is not actually one site, but three linked together.

Re: Easel (YC S12) launches as an easier way to design for the web in your browser

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

CSS3 and HTML5 brings back bad memories. It's easy to abuse, I've done it myself intentionally here: http://cats4gold.net/ostar/ - CSS 2D transforms, CSS background-size, CSS3 selectors, HTML5 audio and JavaScript.

Love it. Here's another great demonstration of CSS3's potential for abuse: http://davisparker.com/OHGOD/index.html

Yeah.

I can't wait until those christian revelation ministry sites (one in particular I can't remember the name of) get a hold of this stuff. They were excellent at abusing DHTML.

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