This is fun, but for it be useful in production the control scheme would need to be made more GUI-like. Great start!
Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
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It has a WYSIWYG editor.
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Wait, there is WYSIWYG editor for tweaking "t" and "pose" attributes visually.
Also quite frankly my target audience is myself (a developer). I think I can use this tool to write fine comixes without being an artist. xkcd-style helps to hide this inability pretty well :)
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#65Any known issue with Chromium?
I just get an error message saying that the page script was taking too much memory and was stopped.
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Yes, this a prototype and definitely not for everyone. It has many downsides. I agree Photoshop gives you full pixel control. I think it has some upsides too. You may treat comix source as html code and apply tools we have for coding today, eg. diffs, version control, collaboration via github. People may also collaborate on library of items, actors and their poses, so you don't have to re-create them or copy&pase all…
OP is missing the point - the markup idea is brilliant. The WYSIWIG will come in it's million forms later and you shouldn't focus on it. I just need comix.vim and I'm good. I'm imagining real time comics. Chat comics. Comic discussion forums. It's endless! ;)
It'd be like MUDding but with pictures!
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted so much, that's hilarious!
I really tried to be as clear as possible regarding the contents of the link, not sure how I could have made it clearer... maybe if I wrote "goatse/parody" instead of "goatse parody"? I think it's definitely relevant considering the technology behind it and the comic it's lampooning.
When I first clicked on it, all of the text besides the link was completely invisible, so I had no idea it was NSFW. I guess a lot of other people didn't realize that before they clicked on it at work.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, this a prototype and definitely not for everyone. It has many downsides. I agree Photoshop gives you full pixel control. I think it has some upsides too. You may treat comix source as html code and apply tools we have for coding today, eg. diffs, version control, collaboration via github. People may also collaborate on library of items, actors and their poses, so you don't have to re-create them or copy&pase all…
OP is missing the point - the markup idea is brilliant. The WYSIWIG will come in it's million forms later and you shouldn't focus on it. I just need comix.vim and I'm good. I'm imagining real time comics. Chat comics. Comic discussion forums. It's endless! ;)
> Chat comics.
It'll be 1996 all over again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor
#69"STOP! WebKit is required here. The Comix Editor was tested under Chrome. It uses some webkit-specific tricks." WebKit - the new IE.
The main problem with IE wasn't that it was an exclusive product incompatible with other browsers. The problem was that it was bad. I'm not a fan of people only supporting WebKit, but at least WebKit browsers are good .
IE isn't bad. It's bad because it is like 10 years old. IE actually innovated a ton of what we consider javascript and CSS/HTML now and days.
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The main problem with IE wasn't that it was an exclusive product incompatible with other browsers. The problem was that it was bad. I'm not a fan of people only supporting WebKit, but at least WebKit browsers are good .
I used IE briefly in 2000 and 2001, before Mozilla (0.9) became usable enough and Phoenix came out; back then (IE 5.5 to IE 6.0) it definitely was the best browser, by far.
It was the most forgiving browser, with a quirks mode that handled broken code like a champ. But Opera was the best browser, and if your code rendered correctly in it, it would probably render correctly everywhere else (except maybe Netscape 4, an abomination that took too long to die).