Sketching A Webpage With Denim

Sayten241 writes "Wired is running an article about a program from UC Berkeley in which website developers can literally sketch out a webpage using a tablet. The article states that Berkley felt that since so many web-developers sketch things out on paper before they begin, why not allow them to sketch on the computer? This program is not limited to websites however. It has also been used to help MIT design a Linux Interface (click the blue parts of the image to navigate through interface)."

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Yay. I am so excited *sigh*

[billcopc]

So it's a Paintbrush toy with an HTML wrapper. Back in my day we called this Imageready.

Now if only it did OCR and converted lines into tables, then we'd be on to something. I can't keep track of the time wasted futzing with tables.

Re:Now We'll Hear From All Those Coding Elitists..

[Anonymous Coward]

The problem comes when some idiot fails to do what we elitists do, namely generate documents that are not only W3C-valid HTML but can also be usefully rendered in a variety of unanticipated media.

Most "tools" for "non-techies" put out atrocious garbage like undefined codepoints (which appear to work but only if you're running Windows) and layout with no structure (so the document makes no sense unless you can render and view it in two dimensions and at a resolution and font size similar to the authors') and sometimes even defective markup (only certain user agents happen to have the error-handling behavior you're relying on).