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Re: Monodraw

#101

Post by soulofmischief »

arghgh wrote: post #49
pjmlp wrote: post #44

Now, that is something really cool, pity we didn't had something like that on BBS days.

Antique furniture meant something- it was done by hand. Same with ASCii- you could respect that it took some time to make it. What respect and feeling will there be for work in the future? Everything generated or thought cheaply generated on whims. Everything throwaway.

Antique furniture is nice because it looks pretty and uses sturdy materials. I don't buy it for the pleasure of knowing how many hours, days or weeks a person slaved over it in order to pay rent.

Good art is good art. Focusing on the time spent making it is a poor substitution for the ability to critique the art itself.

Anyway, people made this same argument when image editors came into their own. There is a long, tiresome generational tradition of artists thinking the new crowd has it too easy and doesn't appreciate the grit that goes into making art in earlier mediums. We can do better.

Re: Monodraw

#102

Post by jen729w »

billyp-rva wrote: post #90
jen729w wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They don’t. You should aria-label it thus: role="img" aria-label="A styled box using monospace box-drawing characters. Its header is 'area complete', and there's a link to a forum post." (Happy to be corrected/updated here, I am not an a11y expert. I am a very happy Monodraw customer though!)

Would this tell the screen reader to just ignore it? Then you'd lose all accessibility for its content.

I believe role=“img” tells it to behave like one, causing the descriptive text to be read out in its place.

Re: Monodraw

#103

Post by nati0n »

milen wrote: post #12

Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.

I don't use the app often, but I felt comfortable purchasing because it wasn't a subscription. The few times I do want ASCII art, it does the job perfectly, so it works super well to have in my back pocket. Thanks for not going the subscription route.

Re: Monodraw

#108

Post by milen »

nati0n wrote: post #103
milen wrote: post #12

Developer of the app here, happy to answer any questions.

I don't use the app often, but I felt comfortable purchasing because it wasn't a subscription. The few times I do want ASCII art, it does the job perfectly, so it works super well to have in my back pocket. Thanks for not going the subscription route.

That makes sense - I deliberately did not go down the subscription route.

Re: Monodraw

#109

Post by milen »

dboon wrote: post #85
milen wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The top two features I want to add next are table support and some form of auto layout (like flexbox). I really care about stability and performance, so I’m happy to hear that it’s being appreciated.

There’s this layout library in C called clay which is basically a renderer agnostic flex box style layout engine. You might be interested in reading its source!

Yeah, there's a few such libraries that I'm aware of but I haven't had time to evaluate them. I do plan to at least look into them and make decision from there.

Re: Monodraw

#110

Post by milen »

SirFatty wrote: post #65
milen wrote: post #23

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There are no current plans but never say never (the app is 100% AppKit, so porting means a full rewrite). I wish I had the time to port it to all three desktop OSes.

ok.. web app? (not a programmer, so no idea if a web app is any different from a development standpoint)

Targeting Windows/Linux/web still means I cannot re-use the sources. But targeting web might be faster in terms of development time, although I don't have deep expertise on non-Apple platforms, so I cannot say for sure.
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