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   by palsecam 17y ago

   Another similar solution: BrowserShots http://browsershots.org/ (it's free). From the website: Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl.
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   by palsecam 17y ago

   The Mibbit case, by its author: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=531896 It uses Comet.
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   by palsecam 17y ago

   I used to be quite addictive to a similar Flash game, called "Text Express": http://fr.games.yahoo.com/d/ztextexp.html . Sorry, it's only available in French, but maybe it could inspire you. The translated rules are: * constitute as much w
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   by palsecam 18y ago

   For the people who would like to follow the progress of Da Button Factory: there is now a development blog http://dabuttonfactory.blogspot.com . You can suscribe to its Atom feed to stay in touch, or whatever. BTW, Da Button factory now ha
5. 155.▲
   by palsecam 18y ago

   it is up again. Sorry for the downtime, but I didn't expect such traffic!
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   by palsecam 18y ago

   Thanks for reporting all these things! - the undo is now ok with the "swap" buttotn - you can "hammer" the increment/decrement buttons - the error messages are a bit better ('integer expected' and not 'number expected'). What do you mean by
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   by palsecam 18y ago

   No no, you are right, it is important, and Opera is not a niche browser in my opinion. I'll look ASAP at browser issues, but unfortunately I've currently no easy access to several OS/browsers :-/
8. 158.▲
   by palsecam 18y ago

   Yes, this would be a nice adding to the output formats. I don't think I'll implement that in the near future, but I keep it in the back of my head for later, and I'll contact you when the time has come :-) Thanks for the idea.
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   by palsecam 18y ago

   thanks for the example idea, you're right the current one is a bit ugly in the global theme! Nice to know a web designer appreciates it!
10. 160.▲
    by palsecam 18y ago

    Thanks for the link!
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Hello everyone out there following the button factory! First of all, thanks everyone for the big amount of -so- useful comments! It's really interesting and motivating! Some have noticed, the server has been down, overloaded. I put some rul
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Thanks a lot, it's so nice and grateful to see people enthusiast about it! The pleasure to serve :-)
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Merci ! Yes, I should definitely add more fonts, it's useful. But does anyone know if embedding open sources fonts is fully legal? And what about commercial fonts, i.e: Arial, Comic sans MS, etc.? It is quite difficult to understand the li
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    The images are queried by Ajax to the server, where a Fast-CGI Perl script generates, caches, and sends the images. Javascript is used, obviously for the Ajax job, for some small visual effects, and to generate the CSS code.
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Oh thank you, so interesting!
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Thanks a lot, especially for the link! I don't think much of any serious "business-ization", but hey, we'll see ;-)...
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Sorry, I didn't try with IE7 :-/ I could just put my hands on an old IE6 version to test the render. I'll definitely install a virtual machine or smthg :-) Thanks for the report.
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Thanks for your advice. 1. yes, it's in my mind, it will be the big step towards the "version 2" 2. and 3. it may come ;-)
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    Thanks everyone for all of your comments! @brk: the method is pretty simple: the images are queried via Ajax to the server, which runs a Fast-CGI script, written in Perl, to generate the buttons. Javascript does the rest (visual effects,
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    by palsecam 18y ago

    (Web) design is hard. For us programmers, it's a pain in the ass, and when it comes to create UI elements for a (web) app, we are stuck with two choices: 1. create something very basic, or 2. spend countless hours searching the web for Pho
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    Ask HN: Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons(dabuttonfactory.com)

    149 points by palsecam 18y ago|92 comments