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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by dombili »

didgeoridoo wrote: post #16

Might be useful to let marketing department guys crank out ad banners without bothering any devs. I'm still waiting for http://macaw.co/ for responsive site & application prototyping.

As someone who's trying to get into web development (not professionally), apps like Macaw makes me want to buy a Mac. Windows is so limited compare to Mac in this regard.

Re: Google Web Designer

#74

Post by sudhirj »

e12e wrote: post #52
JacksonGariety wrote: post #43

Downloaded. Opened. Drew a rectangle. Filled with #FF0000. It spit this out: https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626 (after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file) I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

Uh-oh. So, while Frontpage just broke useragent stylesheets (all those sites setting the text-color, and assuming background was white, like it was in IE) -- this'll break what's left of the semantic web? I wonder how well google handles crawling these things...

Google has long been able to crawl pure javascript pages - I actually think their their crawler is just headless Chrome.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by Shamanmuni »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #50
stekoz wrote: post #4

"Available for Mac and PC". I'd say it doesn't sound very attractive.

You are not the intended audience/user.

But it's called "Google Web Designer", so many of us web developers probably thought we were the target audience. I first thought it was a Dreamweaver competitor with better support for JS libraries and HTML5, which would be great.

Instead we have "Google Ad Designer" targeted at designers and marketers. OK, I was still interested at least to play with it for a while and see if I could recommend it to my designer friends, but no Linux support and worst of all, they use PC as a synonym of Windows and Mac as a synonym of Mac OS X. Sorry, but this isn't the 90's anymore, go back to your time machine.

So, I agree I'm not the target audience, but you have to admit the announcement can be perceived as misleading and off-putting.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by AlexeyBrin »

mlisbit wrote: post #28
medicine23 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why

no Linux support, I'm assuming - GNU/Linux is my preferred workspace environment.

You could always try to run it in WINE (I've seen people running Windows only apps this way in Ubuntu, e.g. MS Office, Noetpad++).

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by boyaka »

JacksonGariety wrote: post #43

Downloaded. Opened. Drew a rectangle. Filled with #FF0000. It spit this out: https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626 (after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file) I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

All I see are data for the location and size of the rectangle and some extra code added by default to allow their scripts to work.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by stekoz »

TheEskimo wrote: post #30
medicine23 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why

Doubtlessly he's bemoaning the lack of support for linux. I would also like linux support, but it still looks like an impressive suite regardless.

Lack of support for Linux is a consequence of not being a webapp, and that is what I really don't like (even if this was supported on Linux, OpenBSD and Solaris). Is expecting that Google can deliver cutting edge web-based apps really weird?
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