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Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

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Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

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Post by saikat »

absconditus wrote: post #17
saikat wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, we just launched this today and are in very early stages of beta. We realize speed is an issue right now (we've mostly been testing on Windows and OS X, on which it runs better), and it's definitely something we're working to improve.

Yet: "Powered by Cappuccino: no Flash slowing down your browser."

Point taken. We changed it.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

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Post by bbsabelli »

saikat wrote: post #20
sammcd wrote: post #15

Bug Report: 1) Put a button on the screen. 2) But a box on the screen 3) But the box on top of the button 4) Select the button (oh wait you can't) Otherwise seems like a great product. I love that you used cappuccino, I can't wait until they give us Atlas.

Yeah that's a good point, I can see how this is fairly confusing. This happens because the box is added on top of the button - you can, however, hit the "Back" button on the toolbar (after selecting the box) to move the box back.

doesn't seem to work

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

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Post by Ennis »

Very happy about seeing a Cappuccino app. I can see myself using this. I'm concerned about the lack of an "export" mechanism. Being able to export to html would be ideal. At the very least, having a PDF or other universal format file that I can email around is probably a must.

I wonder what "Try it now" implies? It would be nice to know if this is planned to become a paid service once out of beta.

Side note: Looks like 280 Atlas is finally rolling out. I don't know what the $20 fee is all about. It feels disrespectful. I thought it was hard enough to find developers to test out a new beta platform/service in the first place.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

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Post by saikat »

Ennis wrote: post #25

Very happy about seeing a Cappuccino app. I can see myself using this. I'm concerned about the lack of an "export" mechanism. Being able to export to html would be ideal. At the very least, having a PDF or other universal format file that I can email around is probably a must. I wonder what "Try it now" implies? It would be nice to know if this is planned to become a paid service once out of beta. Side note: Looks li…

We are planning to charge once we iron out all the bugs and we add a few more features, though there will probably be a free version. We'll have more details on that later. Export is definitely a feature we plan to implement, but for now, E-mailing the share link is the way to get others to see your mockups.

Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino

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Post by saikat »

bbsabelli wrote: post #24
saikat wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah that's a good point, I can see how this is fairly confusing. This happens because the box is added on top of the button - you can, however, hit the "Back" button on the toolbar (after selecting the box) to move the box back.

doesn't seem to work

Might have to hit back more than a few times if you have more than two widgets on the screen. But I'll be sure to make this work better.
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