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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by jebblue »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #215
ben0x539 wrote: post #115

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As someone who happened to use Linux on their PC while coming across this submission, I was confused for a while as to why the download button was disabled. ;)

Ah, thank you. I've been trying to work out why no one seemed to be mentioning it. I flicked to Chrome, used a proxy ... still greyed out without any explanation. Google are seriously bad at web design and copy writing it seems based on this.

It's not like they built their empire on Linux. Oh wait, yes it is.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by topbanana »

heartbreak wrote: post #58
topbanana wrote: post #36

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I don't think it was such a bad tool, it just targeted a dead-end platform (Silverlight)

And a not-so-dead-end platform (WPF).

Well, that's been killed off too effectively. All focus is on WinRT (that hardly any are using)

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by bromagosa »

shrikant wrote: post #266
beernutz wrote: post #238

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I would love to check out your product, but it only runs on OSX. You might consider a port to drastically expand your potential client base. Google's free offering is cross platform already.

It doesn't say anything about Linux, but I guess more than one platform is technically "cross platform" :(

Yep, and I hate it when they use "PC" as a synonym for Microsoft Windows. I do have a PC!

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by goshx »

scholia wrote: post #245
goshx wrote: post #86

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This reminds me of the MS Word generating HTML

Not really. MS Word was designed to generate HTML that would look like your original MS Word document and be round-tripped. This is not particularly easy. However, it made sense if you wanted to use your word processor to create and edit web documents (rather than find and learn another program), or publish existing documents as web pages. Which some businesses did. This did actually make the world a better place ins…

I lost count of how many times I had to open a Word generated HTML document (by a regular Word user that though copying from Word and posting it in the CMS was a good idea) and clean it up by hand so it wouldn't break the page for browsers other than IE (even in IE it would break sometimes... surprise, surprise).

So yes, Sir. Yes, really.

HTML generators like this (or MS Word, or Dreamweaver, you name it) unfortunately are not optimized to do just the job they are used for. A good example for that is the one gave by our fellow commenter above. It adds a lot of useless code because it is simpler to do it that way. In the times where every Kb/s used to count, load a HTML page with 3 times the size it should be was a real issue.

Also, MS Word to HTML was the worst thing I have ever seen in terms of compatibility for other browsers. That to me does not sound like making the world a better place, sorry.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by pritambaral »

gwdengineer wrote: post #163
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

Hi,

The poster definitely meant free-as-in-speech software. Nevertheless, I'm unable to test it right now since it is not available for desktop Linux.

I take it from a few comments here that Google Web Designer uses Chromium Embedded Frame. I have ported Adobe Brackets, which uses Chromium Embedded Frame too, and it's not too difficult. Hardly a day's work. Is there a date when Google Web Designer will be available for desktop Linux?

Thanks, Pritam Baral

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by taftster »

lostsock wrote: post #278
alanh wrote: post #260

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“Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. And, I guess, most of the marketers, too.

Wow really? Where (in what bubble) do you live?

I'm guessing the bubble called Silicon Valley. They tend to have a fairly skewed view of the world there.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by recurrie »

tumultco wrote: post #131
cbhl wrote: post #25

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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.

That's the purpose of my startup :); we've been making an HTML5 animation tool for OS X for the last two years: http://tumult.com/hype/

Hype is amazing tool - only took a few minutes to get up to speed on it. We built an educational touchscreen kiosk in it, and then were able to deploy on an iPad by just scaling it down and downsampling the bitmap assets. A really polished tool.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by sneak »

lostsock wrote: post #278
alanh wrote: post #260

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“Drastically?” The vast majority of the web developers I know use OS X. And, I guess, most of the marketers, too.

Wow really? Where (in what bubble) do you live?

The one where the vast majority of web developers live.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by dombili »

subsection1h wrote: post #256
dombili wrote: post #72

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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.

Macaw seems like a tool for web designers who are afraid of code. If you want to be a web developer, use a text editor. If you want to be a good web designer, use a text editor and learn Sass or Less. If you want to be a mediocre web designer, use whatever.

I'm currently using a text editor (Sublime Text 3). And I like it but it have its own challenges. I don't want to be a web developer, I'm just doing this as a hobby and to design/maintain my personal website. So it doesn't really matter if I'll be a mediocre web designer or not.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by sneak »

radley wrote: post #69
simonsarris wrote: post #22

The most important feature of this (to Google(?)) is the built-in ad editor. It's the last point on the feature list page, but it's very telling that it's the first thing on the "Create New" screen. https://support.google.com/webdesigner/answer/3261498?hl=en&...

It's definitely an ad tool. The help section is entirely about making ads. If you look closely, the responsive layout is strictly for the ad, not the website.

You say it like an accusation. Google's the biggest company in the ad business.
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