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Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by nirvdrum »

jackalope wrote: post #70
wazoox wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Opera was also commercial. At some point there was a free adware version, but I think that was later than 2001. After IE, most people stopped paying for web browsers.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by brokentone »

Disappointed the top comments are criticizing and discussing the browser limitations.

For a weekend project, this guy created a UI that deals intuitively deals with angles, bezier curves, dependent relations between objects, and turns it all into HTML, and you guys are that butt hurt it only works in Chrome?

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by JulianMorrison »

baddox wrote: post #44
znowi wrote: post #10

"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 .

The problem was that it was bad, in the ethics sense of the word.

IE was an attempt to aggressively eject the competition and kill the open web. When the web stubbornly refused to buy into IE-only technologies, it became Microsoft's dog in the manger, holding back the day that web apps made the OS irrelevant. It was good, technically, and then it was bad, technically, but it was always always evil.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by shurcooL »

artursapek wrote: post #7

I love the scribbly cubic beziers you have going on for the speech bubbles. Moving around their control points makes them dance a little. Great stuff.

Reminds me of that part from Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle talk.

Those who have seen it will know what I'm referring to.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by DenisM »

brokentone wrote: post #82

Disappointed the top comments are criticizing and discussing the browser limitations. For a weekend project, this guy created a UI that deals intuitively deals with angles, bezier curves, dependent relations between objects, and turns it all into HTML, and you guys are that butt hurt it only works in Chrome?

Yeah, it is rather odd to see people complaining that the first prototype of a project does not contain all the features from all of the future releases...

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by alemhnan »

Man, this is amazing.

Think about the endless possibilities. On top of that it will be possible to build a library of objects like: "NormalGuy", "Ninja", "Tree" and so on.

Then it will be cool to programmatically move them. No Idea if that is feasible or not. Maybe not, but I will say otherwise.

Then we could describe an environment in which they could act in a declarative way. We could add simple behaviours shaped on top of simple goals. Those goals could be described in a similar way as the environment. If we tie a behaviour to an animation we have small drones of "Ninja" that act on themselves (well..kind of).

Or we could move those animation with the keyboard. I mean, at this point possibilities are just to be enumerated.

At the end it will be like a DSL to describe animation and behaviour and environment. Like an engine for videogames, animation, even smart behaviour (not mentioning AI and similars)

I don't know, I smell something really great behind that think that you built.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by dr_win »

dangoor wrote: post #88

This is really neat. It would be cool to combine it with one of the JS-based presentation engines.

Yep, that was actually my original plan. I wanted to make slides explaining some Bitcoin concepts, but I wasn't able to draw a comics. This actually started as a small hack on top of impress.js :)

Hey K., do you remember? You interviewed me back in 2009 for a Bespin position :-) The world is pretty small. Hope you are doing well.

Re: Show HN: a web-based xkcd-style comix editor

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Post by jff »

triplesec wrote: post #25
jawns wrote: post #6

Wow, combine this with http://xkcdgraphs.com and you've got the ability to do a pretty good Randall Munroe impression!

except most people don't have his wit or intelligence, so prepare your filters!

Wit? Intelligence? The phrase you're searching for is "shameless pandering".
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