Comments on: Awesome. http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/ Fun and games with the politics of open source Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:03:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: an0n1 m0us http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-935 an0n1 m0us Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:06:49 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=114#comment-935 This tool is impressive. I'd like to see more widgets for web design prototyping but otherwise it's a great alternative to wireframes in evil Microsoft Powerpoint. What drives me mad about this sort of project appearing is how fundamentally close it *looks* to the long-desired XUL IDE. Between Pencil Project, Finkle's XUL Explorer, Firebug's chrome support, Venkman and Ted Mielczarek's Extension Developer Extension, there appears to be so many elements already built that could form the core of an XUL IDE, yet MoFoCo hasn't got the vision to lead such a project. Very frustrating! Gecko/JS/XUL could take cross-platform, standards compliant application development to a level that Qt, AIR, GTK+ and others cannot. This tool is impressive. I’d like to see more widgets for web design prototyping but otherwise it’s a great alternative to wireframes in evil Microsoft Powerpoint.

What drives me mad about this sort of project appearing is how fundamentally close it *looks* to the long-desired XUL IDE. Between Pencil Project, Finkle’s XUL Explorer, Firebug’s chrome support, Venkman and Ted Mielczarek’s Extension Developer Extension, there appears to be so many elements already built that could form the core of an XUL IDE, yet MoFoCo hasn’t got the vision to lead such a project.

Very frustrating! Gecko/JS/XUL could take cross-platform, standards compliant application development to a level that Qt, AIR, GTK+ and others cannot.

]]> By: Ehsan Akhgari http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-934 Ehsan Akhgari Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:42:34 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=114#comment-934 This post links to a couple of files: file:///Users/mconnor/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg file:///Users/mconnor/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.jpg Which I think are not accessible on the web. Caught this in the Error Console... I know, I've got to get a life. :-) This post links to a couple of files:

file:///Users/mconnor/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot.jpg
file:///Users/mconnor/Library/Caches/TemporaryItems/moz-screenshot-1.jpg

Which I think are not accessible on the web.

Caught this in the Error Console… I know, I’ve got to get a life. :-)

]]> By: Daniel Glazman http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-933 Daniel Glazman Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:32:06 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=114#comment-933 The excellent idea in that extension is the following one : the mockup is all based on canvas even if the rest of the UI is XUL and images. Amazing to see that all this quality resided in a ~400k XPI. Sincere congrats to the author.. The excellent idea in that extension is the following one : the mockup is all based on canvas even if the rest of the UI is XUL and images. Amazing to see that all this quality resided in a ~400k XPI. Sincere congrats to the author..

]]> By: Percy http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Percy Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:36:47 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=114#comment-932 It really makes creating mockups a dead simple task which is what it is meant for. The ability to save a project as a XUL file would be a killing feature though. ant, I wrote a brief review at Mozilla Links today in case you want to know a little more: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/fast-prototyping/ It really makes creating mockups a dead simple task which is what it is meant for. The ability to save a project as a XUL file would be a killing feature though.
ant, I wrote a brief review at Mozilla Links today in case you want to know a little more: http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/07/fast-prototyping/

]]> By: ant http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-931 ant Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:02:18 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=114#comment-931 I'm not sure from the website what it does, exactly. Is it just for prototyping and trying stuff out... or does it have a "save as xul" thing? If it did, _that_ would be awesome. I’m not sure from the website what it does, exactly. Is it just for prototyping and trying stuff out… or does it have a “save as xul” thing? If it did, _that_ would be awesome.

]]> By: Daniel Glazman http://snarkfest.net/blog/2008/07/03/awesome/comment-page-1/#comment-930 Daniel Glazman Thu, 03 Jul 2008 18:19:10 +0000 http://steelgryphon.com/blog/?p=114#comment-930 Absolutely amazing. In one word : WOW..... Absolutely amazing. In one word : WOW…..

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