Nice! A bit sluggish here (linux/firefox) but usable.
If you had some iPhone UI templates, I'd use it.
Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
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Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
#52If you really want to build a valuable web prototyping app, please make it spit out HTML/CSS. That would be the killer feature! Give me a limited, but functional web site/app that I can then modify/refine, instead of a "picture" of it in whatever else format. THAT would make me use your product in a hearbeat...
Any HTML or CSS spit out by that app would be unusable without a tremendous engineering effort. Anything can be dragged anywhere. Even if export was only available if you limited yourself to certain functionality and layouts, I'd still be extremely impressed if exported HTML and CSS were worth using.
Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
#53Nice effort, and great to see someone building a Cappuccino app; I like that I don't need any plugins to run it. Clearly it's still beta, but something to keep an eye on.
I like that I don't need any plugins to run it.
I second that. Requiring a plugin is the only reason I don't use that other really cool mockup tool. Good luck to the team.
Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
#54If you really want to build a valuable web prototyping app, please make it spit out HTML/CSS. That would be the killer feature! Give me a limited, but functional web site/app that I can then modify/refine, instead of a "picture" of it in whatever else format. THAT would make me use your product in a hearbeat...
Any HTML or CSS spit out by that app would be unusable without a tremendous engineering effort. Anything can be dragged anywhere. Even if export was only available if you limited yourself to certain functionality and layouts, I'd still be extremely impressed if exported HTML and CSS were worth using.
HTML output would be valuable even if it were as simple as possible and completely unstyled. That's still a tedious step I don't have to do.
Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, I haven't been able to replicate that problem. What browser/OS are you using?
Here when I hit enter after changing the text/value of a control, it suddenly disappears. os x tiger, firefox 3.5.4
I managed to reproduce the bug last night and pushed a fix. Hope that helps, and thanks for the catch!
Re: Mockingbird: New tool for building mockups, written in Cappuccino
#56My browser tab (Google Chrome) froze up when trying to do a Copy and Paste of a Rectangle element. Other than that, it's a nice tool. Keep up the good work!
Yeah we just found out about that bug. I just pushed a fix for it about 30 minutes ago.
Well, you sure respond to feedback fast. Great service, thanks!
BTW, I've been designing a few screens for an up-coming project over the past week and haven't had any problems. It is a joy to use. Keep up the good work.