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I'm keenly interested to see if this provides a visual indication of markup or layout clutter/complexity. That would be nice for sniffing out UI design smells,

I'm keenly interested to see if this provides a visual indication of markup or layout clutter/complexity. That would be nice for sniffing out UI design smells, particularly in big enterprise portals. Sadly, when I launch the tool it seems to create an overlay that prevents input to the page but doesn't show anything. Not blank, just invisible. I can close the overlay and keep using the page. But, I can't see anything. Hopefully I can figure that out. I plan to use this for a side-by-side comparison of my product, Oracle web UIs (I'm scared), some nicely-designed and clean sites and some prominent web apps like Amazon or Backpack. Might be a useful tool for me on the "Marketecture" side of things.

justindz 15y ago
Got it working. Short answer, Intel igfx cards (aka, "work laptops") are garbage. Chrome WebGL worked, Firefox didn't. I got it working, albeit slowly, using OSMesa on Ubuntu. Marketing department power! Hope that helps someone.
- justindz 15y ago
  And, I'll stop spamming after this, finally got it working with the same awful video card on FF on Windows. I upgraded my video card and that still didn't work, but I told it to force WebGL in the about:config. Apparently just that setting was enough. Again, hope that helps someone.
ymir 15y ago
I can't imagine better tool to help finding unclosed divs.
pkteison 15y ago
Firefox intentionally disables graphics card acceleration by default on certain video cards because they don't want to deal with the support headaches from bad drivers. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drivers https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive... How to check your settings: http://superuser.com/questions/259502/why-is-firefox-4-not-hw-accelerated/259511#259511 http://superuser.com/questions/259502/why-is-firefox-4-not-h...

justindz 15y ago

Got it working. Short answer, Intel igfx cards (aka, "work laptops") are garbage. Chrome WebGL worked, Firefox didn't. I got it working, albeit slowly, using OSMesa on Ubuntu. Marketing department power! Hope that helps someone.

justindz 15y ago
And, I'll stop spamming after this, finally got it working with the same awful video card on FF on Windows. I upgraded my video card and that still didn't work, but I told it to force WebGL in the about:config. Apparently just that setting was enough. Again, hope that helps someone.

ymir 15y ago

I can't imagine better tool to help finding unclosed divs.

pkteison 15y ago

Firefox intentionally disables graphics card acceleration by default on certain video cards because they don't want to deal with the support headaches from bad drivers. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drivers https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive... How to check your settings: http://superuser.com/questions/259502/why-is-firefox-4-not-hw-accelerated/259511#259511 http://superuser.com/questions/259502/why-is-firefox-4-not-h...