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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by andybak »

abalone wrote: post #118

Ok, the war is on. Does anyone know of a good HTML5 ad blocker? Flash was awesome . It made it really easy to block animated ads. My browsing experience had been wonderful ever since I installed a Flash blocker a few years ago. Also did wonders for my battery life. Please, please help my browsing experience remain wonderful. Thanks.

It's going to be trickier as just blocking a single plugin is no longer viable.

I think an domain blacklist a la Adblock is probably the best idea but that won't help you with ads that are already present in the DOM on pageload.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by andybak »

krsunny wrote: post #113
cbhl wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think that makes sense -- a lot of Google's (paying) clients have been using Adobe (formerly Macromedia) Flash to make ads for years; if Google wants them to adopt HTML5 technology they need to make tools that are as easy to use as Flash was.

I never thought flash was all that easy to use. I could never get the timeline to cooperate with what I was trying to do (drag/copy/paste frames etc)

The Flash timeline was counterintuitive but once you grokked it, it was super easy and super efficient. I came to Flash from After Effects (much more intuitive keyframing) and hated Flash until my brain clicked with it.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by colmvp »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #85
Shamanmuni wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fri…

Are you seriously getting bent out of shape because they said PC and Mac instead of Windows and OS X??? Wow...

Seriously. It's like me complaining a computer game shouldn't be called a computer game because it's not available for the Mac.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by ben0x539 »

AlexeyBrin wrote: post #77
mlisbit wrote: post #28

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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++).

But you'd have to go out of your way to get your hands on it since the Download button is inert unless their javascript can confirm that you are in fact using Windows or so. Doesn't seem to work with wine's built-in browser, and I couldn't get past the clickwrap EULA with an old chrome-based browser running under wine either.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by andybak »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #99
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.

My favorite part is the WebKit specific code... Don't be Evil and something about standards right? This is like IE4/Netscape Communicator days all over again, except now with more than two dominant browsers... "I was a web dev in the 90s and all I got was this lousy XMLHttpRequest object"

Are you saying:

1. This tool can't produce cross-browser output

2. This tool includes some rendering engine-specific markup to solve cross-platform issues.

1 is unlikely and 2 is benign.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by slig »

ChrisArchitect wrote: post #11

so why did they make this? flipping thru the help docs, seems to be for creating responsive ads (not a surprise I know) -- so they want to kill off flash but maintain the animations and flash ad style things out there for youtube and what not?

Ads with animations are more profitable because more people click on them. Since flash is dying, they want an alternative that runs anywhere, so they can display interactive ads anywhere and profit more.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by tumultco »

steren wrote: post #84

Reminds me a similar tool by Sensha: Sensha Animator. http://www.sencha.com/products/animator/ Do you know if Google developed the technology themselves or if it is from an acquisition?

It looks like this is based on the Ninja Authoring Tool which is an open source project, but also Google would have gotten as part of their acquisition of Motorola Mobility.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/ninja-...

https://github.com/mikestowe/ninja

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by arikrak »

r0h1n wrote: post #96
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.

Google Web Designer 2013 = Microsoft Frontpage 2000?

I think its more like Microsoft Expression Design. It even looks similar.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3618...

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by icambron »

sek wrote: post #100
icambron wrote: post #91

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> Who cares about what you think? He probably does, to begin with. That you might disagree with him about how much code is warranted here does not make his comment unconstructive.

> I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application. That sounds just condescending to me. What is the problem with a < 4kb runtime and some browser hacks?

I totally agree with you that there's nothing wrong with it. But which is correct is exactly what's up for discussion.
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