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Designers, what is M∀CAW still missing? (serious answers please)
Designers, what is M∀CAW still missing? (serious answers please)
Importing already created projects and editing that website.
I imagine it would be pretty challenging to parse an existing website into something usable, but it would definitely make the tool a lot more useful (not to say it won't still be useful to lots of people).
Macaw is much closer to Fireworks than Photoshop. I've never used Fireworks but a colleague of mine did. It's so much better suited for web design. But Adobe failed to market it properly (I actually never heard of Fireworks before 2011, several years after I started). That's probably the reason why it's discontinued. Macaw tries to capitalize on this void left by Fireworks, a void that actually may have never been fi…
It's so much easier and rewarding to just learn the basic code to structure a webpage. What if I don't really know much web dev, but master this tool? Where will that get me? "So it shows here you've developed 8 websites for clients, wow, what does your stack look like?" "Oh I kinda just mastered this one specific tool, I don't really know how to code." Reminds me of Dreamweaver days.
I kind of agree. I can't imagine it being popular with professional web developers or designers. Working with modern HTML and CSS is fairly straightforward and quick for development. I see sorting out edge cases and bugs produced by code in Macaw would leave you better off writing the code from scratch. Plus, like you said, this has the benefit of being educational and transferring over to other work. I also can't se…
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Importing already created projects and editing that website.
I was wondering if there would be any answers about this. Without that feature, it's a one way tool: all changes must be made here, the compiled product can't be usefully edited. I imagine it would be pretty challenging to parse an existing website into something usable, but it would definitely make the tool a lot more useful (not to say it won't still be useful to lots of people).
It would be really nice to see this come to Linux eventually too (though, the KS FAQ indicates they're not looking at Linux at the moment).
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for people making physical products a cap would make sense. Printrbot was a pretty good example- order fulfillment took a lot longer than anticipated because of the high volume. On the other hand, delivering a desktop application is about equally difficult for 200 customers or 2000 customers, so the Macaw guys should just revel in their extra cash (aside from the stretch goals that they chose to take on as well, and…
Not entirely convinced. Too much money that you are obliged to spend can sink a project just as well as underfunding. Due to some "Mythical man month" reasons adding more people and features can put you in quagmire easily unless you have very good project managers. I am not sure even those could bear the influx of order of magnitude more money than needed. Kickstarters are not preorders.
Anyone aware of the realities of software development enough to think about capping the max should be aware of the mythical man month and cognizant enough to realize they can just bank that extra money as a rainy day fund for when the product almost certainly goes over schedule even with the original plan (Hofstadter's law).
Is it open source? It would be really nice to see this come to Linux eventually too (though, the KS FAQ indicates they're not looking at Linux at the moment).
Macaw is much closer to Fireworks than Photoshop. I've never used Fireworks but a colleague of mine did. It's so much better suited for web design. But Adobe failed to market it properly (I actually never heard of Fireworks before 2011, several years after I started). That's probably the reason why it's discontinued. Macaw tries to capitalize on this void left by Fireworks, a void that actually may have never been fi…
Full disclosure, my company just released a Photoshop plugin that converts Photoshop images into web sites. First of all, I think the idea behind Macaw is great. A lot of the people at my company really admire their work and there is a solid target market that would want to use Macaw. One of the things to keep in mind is that the target market is, likely, primarily designers and not developers. Important to keep in m…