In the hopes of finding out the rendering engine Snapito used, I tried http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyuseragent.com%2F ; however, that seems to hang forever. I would chalk that up to heavy load from HN, except that other pages seem to work just fine.
Show HN: A simple full page website snapshot service
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#22Not bad - definitely a solid start. This happens to be on my own idea list:
11. Full-page screenshot service that doesn't suck
I'm happy to be able to tick it off as completed by someone else. :)
Edit: I tried sending it a url with Typekit fonts on the page. No dice. I'm assuming that Javascript is turned off?
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#23In the hopes of finding out the rendering engine Snapito used, I tried http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyuseragent.com%2F ; however, that seems to hang forever. I would chalk that up to heavy load from HN, except that other pages seem to work just fine.
This works:
http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyua.com%2F&x=...
Seems to be using webkit.
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#24I currently use the imgur extenstion for this. Main problem is it compresses badly for long pages. This looks interesting though.
I found the survey annoying especially as it asked me about a site I had no knowledge of. Either have an unobtrusive survey or don't have one in my opinion.
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#25In the hopes of finding out the rendering engine Snapito used, I tried http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyuseragent.com%2F ; however, that seems to hang forever. I would chalk that up to heavy load from HN, except that other pages seem to work just fine.
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#26In the hopes of finding out the rendering engine Snapito used, I tried http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyuseragent.com%2F ; however, that seems to hang forever. I would chalk that up to heavy load from HN, except that other pages seem to work just fine.
:-) I use wkhtmltoimage but I’m considering a move over to PhantomJS it’s a known bug that if a page contains a missing resource which 404s then the whole thing 404s. Hence why I’m considering PhantomJS as it’s at least a lot easy to program error detection etc.
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#27I typed in "example.org", and got back "Please enter a URL". For convenience, consider automatically assuming " http:// in the front if the user doesn't specify a URL scheme. (Please do continue allowing URLs with http:// or https:// explicitly specified, though.) You shouldn't make that assumption if you provide an API in the future (API callers should specify full valid URLs), but it would make the current web inte…
Josh that’s really interesting, what browser were you using, because the app doesn’t say ‘Please enter a URL’ this must be a browser feature working against input type=‘url’. I’d love to know the browser you were using. It certainly shouldn’t require a http:// at the front. Yeah you’re 100% right about the fonts, I definitely plan to sort that out ASAP.
The "Please enter a URL" prompt also happens in Chrome (version 16.0.912.77)
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#28After the image is generated, I think you should put a download button as well as Facebook and Twitter buttons for sharing.
Good idea! Will do.
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#29I like the concept. A lot. It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately. Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
Interesting that you'd switch from Skitch if it had that feature set. I can't imagine a scenario where I'd ever prefer to hit, from a page I'd like a screenshot of: > cmd+l, cmd+c, cmd+t, sna, , enter, tab, cmd+v, enter, right click generated image, copy link As opposed to (skitch keybinds): > cmd+shift+5, click once in my browser window, click once on share link Out of curiosity, what is it that makes the web-based…
It's more the annotation/cropping feature set that would make it valuable. Currently to mark up a site, I need to go to that site, open skitch, take the snapshot, then edit it in skitch, then save. Then attach it to a gmail message and send (or upload to dropbox and send the link).
If there was a cloud solution that could do all of this, and provide a link that I could just send someone - it's just so much easier.
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#30In the hopes of finding out the rendering engine Snapito used, I tried http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyuseragent.com%2F ; however, that seems to hang forever. I would chalk that up to heavy load from HN, except that other pages seem to work just fine.