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Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by McGlockenshire »

andybak wrote: post #121
abalone wrote: post #118

Ok, the war is on. Does anyone know of a good HTML5 ad blocker? Flash was awesome . It made it really easy to block animated ads. My browsing experience had been wonderful ever since I installed a Flash blocker a few years ago. Also did wonders for my battery life. Please, please help my browsing experience remain wonderful. Thanks.

It's going to be trickier as just blocking a single plugin is no longer viable. I think an domain blacklist a la Adblock is probably the best idea but that won't help you with ads that are already present in the DOM on pageload.

Thankfully, AdBlock and friends can also target DOM elements for hiding or outright elimination.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

McGlockenshire wrote: post #141
andybak wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's going to be trickier as just blocking a single plugin is no longer viable. I think an domain blacklist a la Adblock is probably the best idea but that won't help you with ads that are already present in the DOM on pageload.

Thankfully, AdBlock and friends can also target DOM elements for hiding or outright elimination.

...which they have gotten overly aggressive on; creating a myriad of issues with normal website functionality.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

tumultco wrote: post #122

This appears to be a fork of the Ninja Authoring Tool which was made by Motorola Mobility over a year ago as part of the Montage project. Now Google owns Motorola Mobility. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/ninja-...

Historical context, thanks!

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by niveshr »

BigChiefSmokem wrote: post #99
JacksonGariety wrote: post #43

Downloaded. Opened. Drew a rectangle. Filled with #FF0000. It spit this out: https://gist.github.com/JacksonGariety/6766626 (after struggling and realizing CMD+S wasn't saving my file) I feel sorry for whoever was tasked with making this application.

My favorite part is the WebKit specific code... Don't be Evil and something about standards right? This is like IE4/Netscape Communicator days all over again, except now with more than two dominant browsers... "I was a web dev in the 90s and all I got was this lousy XMLHttpRequest object"

Hi,

While editing a file, Google Web Designer uses -webkit prefixes. However, when you publish your content, the publish dialog allows you to specify additional vendor prefixes (or no prefixes) in the output so the content works in different browsers.

I hope this helps.

Thanks, Nivesh (Google Web Developer)

Re: Google Web Designer

#146

Post by ChikkaChiChi »

micampe wrote: post #31

Interesting that this is a desktop program and not a web application. Not even "coming soon to your Chromebook".

I'd laugh if I didn't think it was so pathetic. Google seems to have more of a disconnect in what each hand is doing than Microsoft...and that's saying a lot.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by rfnslyr »

abalone wrote: post #118

Ok, the war is on. Does anyone know of a good HTML5 ad blocker? Flash was awesome . It made it really easy to block animated ads. My browsing experience had been wonderful ever since I installed a Flash blocker a few years ago. Also did wonders for my battery life. Please, please help my browsing experience remain wonderful. Thanks.

I choose to disable adblock on all sites, and only block ads on websites I feel are not legit or are going overboard with the ads.

Re: Google Web Designer

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Post by schoen »

Dirlewanger wrote: post #85
Shamanmuni wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's called "Google Web Designer", so many of us web developers probably thought we were the target audience. I first thought it was a Dreamweaver competitor with better support for JS libraries and HTML5, which would be great. Instead we have "Google Ad Designer" targeted at designers and marketers. OK, I was still interested at least to play with it for a while and see if I could recommend it to my designer fri…

Are you seriously getting bent out of shape because they said PC and Mac instead of Windows and OS X??? Wow...

I think this metonymy helps reinforce the idea that there isn't a conceptual difference between hardware and software, or that they are inherently a single integrated product.

If you value various aspects of keeping hardware and software separate, then not reinforcing this association -- and instead trying to draw the distinction -- is valuable.

A lot of people in a discussion like this will point out that many computer users don't know what an OS is in the first place, or don't draw any distinction between the computer, the OS, and the browser. That's true, but avoiding using the individual proper names of these things makes it even more true!

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