Gravit – Open-source design tool
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Gravit – Open-source design tool
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Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#2Has a nice UI (albeit cloned from Photoshop).
Save/Export doesn't seem to work on my machine (Chrome 37, Mac OSX).
Would be nice to see some kind of SVG export instead of raster formats.
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#3Random thoughts; (1) A classic drawing tool made slick, beautiful. (2) Flash is not needed for this type of work at all, thanks to HTML5 (3) It's fast enough (4) View source shows nothing, which means all the UI view generation functionality has moved inside JS.
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#4That loaded much faster than expected. I'd very much like a peek at the code (could not find a link to Github or Google Code).
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#5That loaded much faster than expected. I'd very much like a peek at the code (could not find a link to Github or Google Code).
https://github.com/quasado/gravit
Found on http://gravit.io/, upper right corner.
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#6This may be the first time I try a web app that is as snappy as a desktop one. Congratulations!
What front-end frameworks/technologies did you use?
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#7Random thoughts; (1) A classic drawing tool made slick, beautiful. (2) Flash is not needed for this type of work at all, thanks to HTML5 (3) It's fast enough (4) View source shows nothing, which means all the UI view generation functionality has moved inside JS.
(2) Maybe it was faster for him to build that way, due to experience, etc..
(3) strawman argument, perhaps he chose his technologies for other reasons besides premature optimization. You're essentially accusing him of making a design mistake IMO.
(4) The fact that right click is disabled doesn't tell us anything about the software architecture, your statement reads as if its a critique.
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#8It's worth noting that Gravit.io is a JavaScript rewrite of Stagestack project [1] which was an attempt to create commercial clone of Macromedia FreeHand from scratch [2]. Stagestack project failed due to lack of funding from FreeHand community.
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#9Random thoughts; (1) A classic drawing tool made slick, beautiful. (2) Flash is not needed for this type of work at all, thanks to HTML5 (3) It's fast enough (4) View source shows nothing, which means all the UI view generation functionality has moved inside JS.
(2) Maybe it was faster for him to build that way, due to experience, etc.. (3) strawman argument, perhaps he chose his technologies for other reasons besides premature optimization. You're essentially accusing him of making a design mistake IMO. (4) The fact that right click is disabled doesn't tell us anything about the software architecture, your statement reads as if its a critique.
I didn't think he was criticising anything.
Re: Gravit – Open-source design tool
#10Has a nice UI (albeit cloned from Photoshop). Save/Export doesn't seem to work on my machine (Chrome 37, Mac OSX). Would be nice to see some kind of SVG export instead of raster formats.
There's an intro to the app on their blog. Sounds like they were going for Freehand/Fireworks rather than Photoshop :)
All saving also disabled for me, guessing the back end isn't quite there yet.