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280 Slides launches (YC Winter '08)
- JimEngland 18y agoSounds like a great product but I wasn't able to connect to the site... is anyone else experiencing the same issues?
- boucher 18y agoThe TechCrunch embed has bitten us a bit harder than expected. We're actively working on it!
- tlrobinson 18y agoSorry about that, try again, it should be much better now.
- goodkarma 18y agoWow! They have done an amazing job! Definitely light years ahead of anything else I've seen (that works in a web browser)..
- nirmal 18y agoClicking on the next slide button or the slide itself just took me to the top of the page. EDIT: I'm not complaining, I used the actual slide builder and that was awesome. It's miles beyond any of my hacks :).
- boucher 18y agoFixed.
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- jbenz 18y agoMe too. I also got an error message pop-up. But hey, it's a brand new service. I'm not judging.
- tlrobinson 18y agoThe embeds definitely have a few kinks to work out. Until then, you can view the same presentation here: http://280slides.com/Viewer/?user=187&name=My%20test%20slideshow http://280slides.com/Viewer/?user=187&name=My%20test%20s...
- wave 18y agoCongratulations! It is impressive product. The site is little slow but expected. I like how clean the editor looks and you added all the necessary functionalities without using Flash. Wish you great success in future.
- yan 18y agoThat looks technologically impressive. I heard they will be releasing their Objective-J tools as open source, is there any truth to that? I'd love to see what's running behind this. Does anyone know how long this took?
- pg 18y agoI used an early version of this to make my slides for startup school.
- babul 18y agoI really like the interface and way it works. Well done!
- bprater 18y agoDamn impressive work with Javascript, guys! We are rapidly getting to the point where it's almost difficult to tell at a glance if you are using a web-based app or a client-based app.
- asnyder 18y agoA JavaScript application is a client-based app. The only difference is that you go to a url that loads your client app, versus having it already installed on your system.
- boucher 18y agoIt's a pretty big difference though from downloaded desktop software.
- asnyder 18y agoHow? Don't you consider Flash, Java, and Silverlight applications to be downloaded software? What if it's an AcitveX application that's served through your browser, is that a web based application?
- bprater 18y agoHrm, I've always used the verbage 'web-based app' for anything that funneled its way over to the Internet and was stuck in my browser. (Versus something that hung out on my hard drive.) Do you guys think it's inaccurate to call an app like this one that is 95% Javascript 'web-based'? If not, what is a more accurate word?
- alaskamiller 18y agoIt resides on a web server, you access it via a web browser, it's a web-based app.
- asnyder 18y agoDo you consider a Java Applet to be a web based application?
- tx 18y agoWhile I am generally very skeptical of half-assed reimplementations of existing tools with a stamp "now in the browser!!!", 280 was probably the first case when I said to myself "this is damn nice!" Very well done. So much different from the typical crappy and laggy "online app" experience I've seen before. And THANK YOU!!! for not using Flash.
- dcurtis 18y agoI agree. But not only are the technical problems with most rich applications fixed by 280 north, but the UI is beautiful, easy to use, and awesome as well.
- jimbokun 18y ago"And THANK YOU!!! for not using Flash." The whole "Objective-J" thing is fascinating. From this, looks like they have ported at least some of AppKit to compile into Javascript webapps: http://280slides.com/Editor/1212695713/DocumentController.j http://280slides.com/Editor/1212695713/DocumentController.j Looks like they have brought the Mac development experience to the web in a far more literal way than I expected.
- zhyder 18y agoI don't understand why Flash is so bad. The general concept of having a plugin with a rich built-in API makes sense for a lot of reasons (natively compiled code in the plugin, smaller download of additional code). The problems with Flash are: (i) it's proprietary, and (ii) it's not on 100% of browsers. (i) is mostly a complaint from developers based on principle, and (ii) -well- isn't true for Javascript either if you include mobile browsers. Disclaimer: my app is built on Flash. P.S.: 280slides is great! And very impressive this was done with JS.
- maximilian 18y agoFlash sucks balls if you have an older mac (1ghz). I don't know how it performs generally on an older pc, but for me, its just aweful. I hate anything online that uses flash.
- immad 18y agoYou guys are really really impressive. Crashed my firefox but that crashes at everything and is damn slow. works like a charm in Safari. The video embed were not working though...
- andreyf 18y agoCrashed my firefox but that crashes at everything Worked fine for me in 3rc2 - might be your plugins?
- volida 18y agoi don't want to be the mean guy and although I realise the technical challenge, it feels very slow and unresponsive (i tried it on IE 7, AMD Turion 64 which should be more than enough)
- r7000 18y agoI have to admit, I right-clicked looking for the "About Adobe Flash Player 9" thing
- morbidkk 18y agome too! It looked much like flex UI at first impression
- s3graham 18y agoA bit slow, but seems nicely polished after a very quick run through. Nice work.
- warwick 18y agoWhy a Keynote clone? The implementation is beautiful, but I don't see why you'd choose an app that relies on full screen mode and control via remotes.
- izak30 18y agoCongrats Guys, I saw you at IO at 'birds of a feather' for a little pre-launch demo, very cool.