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Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
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Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#32I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content. It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages. The results so far have been really promising: - building websites is extremely rapid - very little debugging or verification is needed - it's easy to create beautiful content Techniques t…
Does this mean it could work with Inkscape? Since all Adobe products are now rentware I've moved to Inkscape and Affinity Designer for SVG these days.
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#33This is how you enable creative web design. Sure, you shouldn't necessarily run your business on something like this (for a multitude of reasons), but for personal websites and prototypes this is great. When Flash plugins were on the way out everyone always repeated how this would open the door for equally powerful HTML5 tooling. But while HTML5 has gained all the technical capabilities of Flash, nobody has managed t…
Macromedia Flash era was the best for authoring IMO. But I was just a hobbyist, didn't use it professionally.
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#34I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content. It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages. The results so far have been really promising: - building websites is extremely rapid - very little debugging or verification is needed - it's easy to create beautiful content Techniques t…
What about SEO, a11y, i18n?
What about p27s?
("People who hate abbreviationS")
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#35Is there any UI framework build on SVG?
I wish. SVG (with JS) is a fantastic way to build much more flexible UIs than HTML is capable of.
D3 can do it but it's really geared toward data visualization rather than general UIs.
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#36This may sound neat, but is the most stupid idea I've seen in a long time. As if Node.js wasn't bad enough.
Not only does this break standards we have used decades getting in place, but anyone old enough to remember the last time WYSIWYG webpage editors was all the rage, know how that ended (e.g. https://www.arngren.net/)
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#37I got a similar system where I display an image full screen, with clickable locations based on mouse position.
Like Svija - not a real website.
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#38I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content. It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages. The results so far have been really promising: - building websites is extremely rapid - very little debugging or verification is needed - it's easy to create beautiful content Techniques t…
There is a typo at the top -- "Ilustrator" in "A WEBSITE BUILDER BASED ON ADOBE ILUSTRATOR".
Thank you (you'll have to imagine it in all caps).
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#39I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content. It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages. The results so far have been really promising: - building websites is extremely rapid - very little debugging or verification is needed - it's easy to create beautiful content Techniques t…
For the US market, have you considered accessibility yet? It’s one of the struggles that one has to deal with in a website builder market. As of now, the structure of the website being produced has both SEO (creating search engine and related revenue concerns) and accessibility issues. The later are severe enough to end up in an accessibility lawsuit in the US, if one is running a business worth any non-trivial amoun…
Accessibility is obviously super important. For now I add accessibility content manually.
I'm planning to write a script to automatically convert the Illustrator text to HTML, based on font size and position on the page.
Re: Show HN: A tool to build real websites built exclusively in SVG
#40I was getting really frustrated with CSS and HTML (I was originally a print designer), so built a tool for building websites using only SVG content. It's essentially a website builder that uses Adobe Illustrator for creating pages. The results so far have been really promising: - building websites is extremely rapid - very little debugging or verification is needed - it's easy to create beautiful content Techniques t…
If you would take one suggestion, it's probably a good idea to make saving and pushing different actions. A complex project might go through several revisions before it's ready to be uploaded, might need approvals, might need a lot of things. You wouldn't want to leave your work unsaved until you're ready to put it online.
There's no obligation to push — you can easily synchronize the site when everything's ready.
Also, any modifications take effect after 24 hours, or you can just unpublish a page temporarily — there are several options that permit working without going live.