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Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

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Post by _joev » Sat, May 02, 2015, 3:32 PM UTC

Thanks for the votes :) The code is here if anyone wants to modify it (this site is hosted on github pages):

https://github.com/joevennix/aquietplace

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#22

Post by _joev » Sat, May 02, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

herghost wrote: post #13

Nice, but full screen mode won't accept input on OS X 10.10.3 using Safari 8.0.5. I can input in the browser and it shows fine. If I full screen it the text remains but it ignores input.

It's a Safari bug unfortunately.

https://medium.com/adventures-in-consumer-technology/allow-k...

Seems like the best recourse is to disable the feature in Safari. Bummer.

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#23

Post by _joev » Sat, May 02, 2015, 3:54 PM UTC

_joev wrote: post #18

alkimie2 wrote: post #10

It was not obvious to me how to save my work, other than as a webpage.

Yeah right now there is only saving as the browser allows (print to PDF is another way). I'll add support for saving as a .txt on cmd-S through HTML5 download API in a bit.

Added a cmd-S to save to txt.

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#24

Post by _joev » Sat, May 02, 2015, 3:56 PM UTC

falcolas wrote: post #12

In full screen mode, the entire screen goes black. It still accepts input, but I can't actually see what is being typed. This is on Mac OSX 10.10.3, using Firefox 37.0.2.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix this. Maybe someone here knows. I define the fullscreen bg color:

    bg:fullscreen, bg:-webkit-full-screen, bg:-moz-full-screen {
      background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);
    }

But it does not get respected

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#25

Post by ricardobeat » Sat, May 02, 2015, 4:10 PM UTC

Doesn't do anything in Safari, it's just a textarea. Is it supposed to give you a unique URL per document?

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#26

Post by ytjohn » Sat, May 02, 2015, 6:58 PM UTC

gprasanth wrote: post #5

I love the black background in full screen feature a lot. I have actually wanted to write this (trivial)tool myself. I do not like others (around me) to read my blog posts or emails before I finish writing them. And this is perfect for getting the initial draft to work with. I usually am distracted by what I'd already written before I finish writing what I wanted to write. This tool helps me not do the root of all ev…

How do you change the background?

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#27

Post by _joev » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:40 PM UTC

_joev wrote: post #24

falcolas wrote: post #12

In full screen mode, the entire screen goes black. It still accepts input, but I can't actually see what is being typed. This is on Mac OSX 10.10.3, using Firefox 37.0.2.

I cannot for the life of me figure out how to fix this. Maybe someone here knows. I define the fullscreen bg color: bg:fullscreen, bg:-webkit-full-screen, bg:-moz-full-screen { background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0); } But it does not get respected

Fixed it with *{background: white;}, strangely enough.

Re: Show HN: Aquietplace, a small writing tool

#28

Post by _joev » Sat, May 02, 2015, 7:42 PM UTC

ytjohn wrote: post #26

gprasanth wrote: post #5

I love the black background in full screen feature a lot. I have actually wanted to write this (trivial)tool myself. I do not like others (around me) to read my blog posts or emails before I finish writing them. And this is perfect for getting the initial draft to work with. I usually am distracted by what I'd already written before I finish writing what I wanted to write. This tool helps me not do the root of all ev…

How do you change the background?

You can't, there was a bug in my code when run on firefox fullscreen.

Formatting options would be nice, for now you can copy some text from an external HTML document and it will preserve the formatting. You can then edit this text.