AndrewSwift

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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I understood that — my answer was a bit clumsy. The page doesn't actually suggest that you click on the buttons — they're just buttons (except for one, where it says "click here"). To me it seemed natural to hold down th
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thanks for taking the time to visit!
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
If all goes well we'll be using WASM to produce our own SVG/HTML hybrid pages in a couple of years ;-)
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
It does not. Right now, Svija only supports effects that can be created within Adobe Illustrator. From what I have seen, these kinds of effects are easy to reproduce with regular Illustrator effects. It might be interesting in more advanced
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
It is SVG — it's in <tspan> elements: <tspan class="stVibe-CP1"> lets you take any element or </tspan>
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
We would love that. The problem is that only Illustrator leaves text as text and images as images — all the others except Inkscape convert text and images into data that's no longer searchable. With Inkscape, the issue is that AFAIK it
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I actually cheated a bit — you are right that it's not clicking, it's pressing. I tried various things, and this felt the most fun. You obviously feel differently. The "cheat text" that says how it works is just meant to
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I would love to add interactivity, and there are also a lot of SVG effects that we haven't even touched. I need to clean up the animation programming and make it more straightforward, then I'll be able to get into that stuff. By S
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I understand your point. From my point of view, people who visit our site are mostly people whom I've had some contact with or who read about us in a context like HN, so I don't feel people are being misled. I could be more clear
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Greensock is really great. It's pretty easy to use if you know a little JS, and it's very powerful. And, their support resources are top notch — very important for a tool that powerful.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I didn't know that — thanks for the info!
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
Thank you. I really poured my heart and soul into this project, and I think that the idea of creating animation by naming objects in a graphical interface has a lot of potential. It's obviously a prototype — I've been building web
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
That's true. I used to build Flash websites and I started this project because I couldn't see myself building HTML/CSS for the rest of my life. Although there were many horrible Flash websites there were some really glorious
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
The reason why we need cookies is to deliver different versions depending on the platform. By default, the mobile version is served. If it turns out that the request came from a big screen, a cookie is set and the page is reloaded. From the
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
See my reply to whylo: I agree wholeheartedly that accessibility is important, but I can't devote engineering resources to it until I have a product that's compelling in its own right.
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
One of the things I like about SVG is that it's the same everywhere. You can look at our site on any major browser and it's exactly the same down to the pixel. Sure there are some rough edges — this is a proof of concept. Long ter
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
I agree wholeheartedly that accessibility is important, but I can't devote engineering resources to it until I have a product that's compelling in its own right. Right now I'm just trying to make an interesting platform to ex
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by AndrewSwift 4y ago
It does require cookies — did your loop occur with cookies on or off? Without cookies it will try to redirect to the desktop version and fail — if you visit in a tall narrow window it should show you the mobile version and not reload.
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Show HN: All-SVG websites with complex animation(svija.love)
188 points by AndrewSwift 4y ago|121 comments
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
Sounds about right. I think it would help a lot, but my SO would never do it.
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Ask HN: Have you tried GitHub issues to manage issues with a significant other?
2 points by AndrewSwift 5y ago|2 comments
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
Which Sargent? I have fumée d'ambre gris hanging over me ;-)
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
Great link, I found it surprisingly interesting, and it explains a lot. I hope more people will see it and give their opinions.
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
I'm going to add animation — I really do think that it's become necessary. I have lots of ideas, and it's quite a fun process. Thanks!
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
I wanted to create an example of a use case — you can publish Illustrator documents to the web pretty much instantly. So basically it's just supposed to be cool.
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Ask HN: has animation become obligatory for a marketing website?
2 points by AndrewSwift 5y ago|5 comments
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
• Option click in the top right corner of the screen to enable do not disturb. • use Spaces and put all the chattery apps in one Space (right click in Dock > only this space) • Hide the Dock • Set cmd-lower right corner of screen (in scr
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
I would just answer: ad buyers are Google's clients, and users are more like fodder. Not an original thought, I know. I would be interested to know what major users of Google's advertising services think about the quality of their
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
Thanks so much for taking the time to comment. I need to optimize the images more. There is a background color etc., but the main image is much too heavy. Many people have noted the horizontal scrollbar issue — it's from a problem with
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by AndrewSwift 5y ago
I'm definitely going to check it out — someone else also mentioned it.

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