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Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

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Post by lifeformed »

Woah. Snaggy dev here; didn't think I'd see this on HN yet. I made Snaggy myself a year ago as a side project - it was my first experience with web development. After a year of feedback, I was in the middle of giving it a big revamp, improving the UX, handling other browsers/OS better, user accounts, deletion options, etc. I was going to post it here once I had all that fixed up! But here we are.

Please give me your feedback! I had zero experience with webdev when I made this, but now I feel much more confident. Snaggy uses S3 and Cloudfront, and deletions are permanent, if that's a concern. Also, I use the user-agent for browser detection, which I realize now is not very reliable. I need better browser/OS support and I'd like to improve the editor.

Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

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Post by indenturedsmile »

p4bl0 wrote: post #38
sharkweek wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, agreed -- my comment was more just a random thought -- I appreciate that the two community styles stay mostly separate

And I totally agree with you, I just actually couldn't resist. I was ready to face some downvote (and I have been served…). Apologies. However there already are some links on HN which leads to reddit style discussion, like the recent link to the "Great HN parody". I think it may be okay from time to time as long as it doesn't flood the discussion.

Yeah, that's cool. I chuckled at your comment, and I didn't downvote (I can't. Guess I don't have enough karma). Just trying to abide by the guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html).

Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

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Post by vscarpenter »

Is there a freeware or commercial WYSIWYG editor that supports pasting of images like this awesome tool?

I have a use-case where users are creating charts in Excel and want to paste them into a HTML textarea and WYSIWYG editor that supported paste of images from the clipboard would be awesome. Thanks

Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

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Post by nwh »

lifeformed wrote: post #42
nwh wrote: post #6

Snaggy needs to use a Java applet to read your clipboard. Haha, nope.

Which browser are you using? It only needs an applet for browsers that can't support the clipboard api (unless it detected it wrong, which is possible).

Safari / WebKit nightly.

Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

#48

Post by nimrody »

CWIZO wrote: post #47

This is fantastic. I had no idea you could even do that (read from clip board). This really is fantastic.

Here's a nice explanation (courtesy of StackOverflow): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6333814/how-does-the-past...

It's very useful when composing in gmail.

Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

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Post by chrisbroadfoot »

lifeformed wrote: post #40
ChuckMcM wrote: post #31

I am clearly too paranoid. I was looking at my screen thinking what sort of information leakage there would be uploading a screenshot and then 'trimming' it to remove the stuff that I didn't want out there. And then thinking the upload sends the whole image, then the tools crop it and you get a 'final' version. But the original? Still there somewhere. Not that this is an original thought mind you, XKCD famously parod…

You can press "delete original" when you edit it. The original gets removed from S3 servers once the Delete request propagates through Cloudfront.

Have you thought about using Canvas to do client side cropping?

Re: Snag.gy - Paste images directly to the web

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Post by PButcher93 »

lifeformed wrote: post #41

Woah. Snaggy dev here; didn't think I'd see this on HN yet. I made Snaggy myself a year ago as a side project - it was my first experience with web development. After a year of feedback, I was in the middle of giving it a big revamp, improving the UX, handling other browsers/OS better, user accounts, deletion options, etc. I was going to post it here once I had all that fixed up! But here we are. Please give me your…

It's great tool, hence why I posted it here. The last post of snag.gy was nearly a year ago and it got basically no feedback.

My interest in web development has increased over the past through years, so simple effective tools like this appeal to me.

I use it on a regular basis now so thanks for that :)

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