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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by aestra » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #142

McGlockenshire wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thankfully, AdBlock and friends can also target DOM elements for hiding or outright elimination.

...which they have gotten overly aggressive on; creating a myriad of issues with normal website functionality.

I haven't found a significant example of this, and I've been browsing with Adblock Plus for years. The only place I've seen issues with is some video streaming sites, when it interferes with streaming ads.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by sequoia » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:41 PM UTC

ChikkaChiChi wrote: post #142

McGlockenshire wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thankfully, AdBlock and friends can also target DOM elements for hiding or outright elimination.

...which they have gotten overly aggressive on; creating a myriad of issues with normal website functionality.

Can you give an example? The only issue I've ever had with ABP et al. is when I'm working on a site and forget to turn it off & I think my site is broken (because ad doesn't load). :p

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by gwdengineer » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:42 PM UTC

davexunit wrote: post #66

No thanks, Google. I'll use free software to make web pages.

Hi,

Google Web Designer is free. ;o)

Thanks, Google Web Designer team

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by adrianlmm » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:42 PM UTC

I would call it "Google adds designer" instead.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by mattdennewitz » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:44 PM UTC

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.

such entitlement! do you have any idea how publishers make money on the web?

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by madsushi » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:44 PM UTC

rfnslyr wrote: post #147

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.

I choose to disable adblock on all sites, and only block ads on websites I feel are not legit or are going overboard with the ads.

I choose to let sites do what they want with ads, since it is their site and their business plan/model. I also choose not to visit sites that have ads that I don't like.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by ubershmekel » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:46 PM UTC

gwdengineer wrote: post #151

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.

Hi, We are glad you are trying out GWD. You are correct that it seems like a bit of overhead just to render a simple rectangle. However, as alphakappa astutely observed, there is some overhead to parse the JSON data which describes the various shapes and to render those shapes in canvas(es). What you see is the entire canvas rendering library used by GWD. That code will be reused for additional shapes you create, inc…

I understand you guys want to serialize data efficiently. But perhaps you can pretty print the rectangle information? It would make designs a lot nicer when version controlled (esp so if you sort the content consistently). Also, it would make manually meddling easier.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by acchow » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:46 PM UTC

I wish this were a self-hosed web app.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by gwdengineer » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:48 PM UTC

mason55 wrote: post #82

I tried to open an existing html file and got: "Unable to open file due to the following error: The file was not created in Google Web Designer." So, basically, Google is just creating their own proprietary format that's built on HTML. Even if you are just using it to construct ads you'll be somewhat locked-in to this toolchain. Since HTML is inherently open people will be able to build converters but it's still a ba…

Hi, Currently we do only support editing document created in GWD, but we are outputting HTML, CSS and JS. We only add some author time data in order to enhance the authoring experience but otherwise everything else is just plain HTML and CSS. Our minified JS is only added for the Ads use case and to support the rendering of Canvas shapes.

Also we are still in Beta and we are working on adding many more features for our 1.0 release. Feel free to submit any features request through our public forums.

Thanks, Google Web Designer team.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by huhtenberg » Mon, Sep 30, 2013, 6:50 PM UTC

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.

Smells like FrontPage spirit.