Is that related to toDesktop which was also on HN today (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37306411)? The download link leads to dl.todesktop.com/{someHash}.
Bit weird, what is the relation here? And why not mentioning?
Webstudio: Open-source WYSIWYG adds Radix UI elements
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#22A little off-topic: I am seeing the same design in 1/3 of links that get to to HN front page. The design is clearly a copy of the Vercel's design (and maybe they stole it from somewhere else). The same typography, gradients, border radius, and definitely the same blur effect.
I am happy that 'Corporate Memphis' is dying, but I am not happy it is getting replaced with another fad.
Makes me wonder, does someone keep track of web design trends trough history?
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#23I don’t understand why downloading code is such a difficult feature for a website builder — I get the competitive aspect. BUT! It would bring so many users to your system and really would be great marketing — why not compete by giving people what they want and just practice love in not lock in? Especially when you’re already there with the OSS license? Seems a real missed opportunity.
> practice love in not lock in
I haven’t heard this phrase before, it’s such a great way to describe how I like to do things, which I would have written as “compete on quality rather than treachery”
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://www.radix-ui.com/ The main offering is their primitives ( https://www.radix-ui.com/primitives ): essentially skeletons of common components that plain HTML makes difficult to style. They take care of cross-browser compatibility and accessibility and you apply your CSS to their wrapper element. (generally the term for this is headless UI components) Most recently they released a styled version of those primiti…
For React. Not mentioned even on the documentation page unless you dig for quite a bit.
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#25Only works in Chrome/Edge it seems, but they don't tell you that until you've done the oauth and created a project, pretty shady.
its because dashboard works in other browsers too, but builder is very complex
How is that a valid reason?
Standard compliance, especially in something like a website builder should be a top priority. If the builder doesn't work in major browsers, why there be any confidence that the sites it produces will?
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#26Not signing in "with google" or "with github" or any other unrelated 3rd party. If there's no "with email" then its goodbye. Probably a fine product though...
Personally I refuse to signup just to check out something I'm only passively interested in, and I will never understand why startups do this. I imagine they're immediately turning away >80% of potential customers vs. just letting people try out the damn product
Any product that allows you to consume lots of resources including API calls, interact with other users, or share anything basically needs to be authenticated to avoid misuse. This covers virtually everything.
Sign in with google/apple can be virtually painless and only lets them know your email address, name, and profile pic if oauth is configured reasonably and its easy to tell on your side if its not because it asks for the additional permissions. You can also sign up with email without making the person go through a lot of malarky. Simply send them a sign in link instead of doing the whole normal dance. Click it and continue on.
If need be they can be prompted to fill out additional data if features require it.
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#27I don’t understand why downloading code is such a difficult feature for a website builder — I get the competitive aspect. BUT! It would bring so many users to your system and really would be great marketing — why not compete by giving people what they want and just practice love in not lock in? Especially when you’re already there with the OSS license? Seems a real missed opportunity.
We are launching a CLI soon that will allow syncing data and self-publishing, starting with Vercel as first destination.
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#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
its because dashboard works in other browsers too, but builder is very complex
How is that a valid reason? Standard compliance, especially in something like a website builder should be a top priority. If the builder doesn't work in major browsers, why there be any confidence that the sites it produces will?
when you say confidence, is it because the person who builds, can't test in other browsers inside builder?
this is something we are going to solve soon by having ability to open up the build url and keeping it in sync with the changes.
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#29I am not understanding the value of the open source builder, if I am not able to download the code and host it on my own. What does the opensource gives me additionally apart from integrating the studio on my own website. The hobby/free plan already has unlimited projects, pages and team members. Looking into the builder, I cannot see the code but just the css. Would have been good if I could create one of components…
it’s open source you can add the feature to download the code yourself if you want it. being open source is also just a good thing in itself because it’s contributing to the total body of code available for others to extend and use in whatever way they want.
For anyone else looking for the source code for the WYSIWYG builder itself, I think this is it: https://github.com/webstudio-is/webstudio
AGPL 3.0
This is very cool. Looking forward to try it.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is that a valid reason? Standard compliance, especially in something like a website builder should be a top priority. If the builder doesn't work in major browsers, why there be any confidence that the sites it produces will?
when you say confidence, is it because the person who builds, can't test in other browsers inside builder? this is something we are going to solve soon by having ability to open up the build url and keeping it in sync with the changes.
This would also solve the problem with testing on various mobile devices by e.g. using browserstack and similar tools or even physical phones.