Macaw – Code-savvy web design tool(macaw.co) |
Macaw – Code-savvy web design tool(macaw.co) |
I normally don't get excited over tools like these, but wow that actually seemed very well done and very impressive.
The HTML/CSS code it produced was beautifully clean, so interestingly I'm actually most excited about the possibility of this being used as a training tool: the option to be able to instantaneously see the code in a side window as you're 'drawing' it -- this kind of simultaneous feedback is always a real boon for the beginner learner.
The code produced by the app does look quite clean for a WYSIWYG however.
Every WYSIWYG editor I've ever used was always only useful up to a point. Maybe this one breaks that mold but there's no way to know until we can take it for a spin.
Its ok to optimize for mac if that's who will give you money.
While CSS3/HTML5 definitely made web design somewhat closer to actual coding (esp. on the CSS end), I still find it difficult to call renderer instructions in a markup language true "code".
However, this looks like an interesting tool! Too bad that you only seem to be aiming for OSX. Are ports planned?
[1] http://pandodaily.com/2013/10/17/macaw-a-kickstarter-funded-...
> We have no plans to bring Macaw to Linux at this time. Once the Mac and Windows versions are released we will look into Linux.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/macaw/macaw-the-code-sav...
This is not the kind of application I was expecting to "not support linux". That said, They're not actually supporting windows right now either, so I guess for designers only. Oh well.
please :-)
That said, not all things are suitable for this. For many things, you still want code. I suspect that there are opportunities for people to find harmonious ways of blending the two.
EDIT: Wouldn't something like hosting a web app be amenable to a Archy/Zoomworld style representation? The relationship between front-end servers, app server workers, back-end processes, and databases could exist as a giant diagram.
damn it.
> There is definitely a chance we will port Macaw over to Linux. We are working on getting the Mac and Windows versions out first then we will re-evaluate.
It's almost like a div is made black and floated over the top of it if that's possible.
As you mentioned it's coming to app store soon?
where is that big red button for start?
What this whole thing sounds like is, "I unilaterally made up my own definition of a word and I will correct people who don't use it that way and everyone who disagrees with me is just quibbling."
And regardless of the relative popularity of that usage, I can't see how I'm the one with the "pointless definitional quibble", since the context is someone calling out the author for using something other than their favorite definition of "code".
I mean, if you do doubt that, that's fair enough. I just thought it was pretty obvious that in this community the word was used in a pretty restrictive way (thus the post complaining about it) and broader meanings were only found elsewhere.
In any case, my point is that even if we nail it down, all we're doing is figuring out what people mean by "code", not discovering any fundamental truths about coding or programming or HTML or anything.