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Sketching A Webpage With Denim

Posted by timothy on from the point-and-point dept.

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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  1. re: Linux interface by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny


    Well...at least it looks better than KDE. ;)

    *just joking!*

  2. Prior art :) by Kickasso · · Score: 3, Funny

    I know of a guy who sketched his website on some A4 sheets. Then he thought "heck, this is good, why waste an effort." He simply scanned these pages, added some code for navigation and that was it.

    1. Re:Prior art :) by RevAaron · · Score: 3, Informative

      There is this Mac "HTML" editor that basically did this, but streamlined it- the whole process was done on the Mac. My gf had been looking for a free HTML editor before she pirated Dreamwaver or spent all day for a while in a lab at school working on her website with the school's copy.

      You were given a white, blank page to begin with. You had various tools, and it looked like a drawing program. You put text on, images, etc, drawing them. It would work well with a tablet. Then you save. You'd think the tool wouuld save all the text as regular HTML text, but nope- it exported the *entire page* as an image, making an image map out of it with the text that was supposed to be linked, etc. Really seemed laughable.

      Denim seems a bit cooler- it adds gesture recognition to this. ;) (and more, it'sa joke folks)

      I am pretty sure this was an old version of Freeway for Classic Mac OS. There had to have been an option somewhere to have it emit HTML/images like a normal editor, or perhaps they've just upgraded it to that... But they're not out of business, and some people really like the tool so it must not be a totally crappiece.

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  3. Yay. I am so excited *sigh* by billcopc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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    -Billco, Fnarg.com