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Not having to write CSS? That works for me. Where do I sign up? LOL
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You love it, Kelly. You’re not fooling us.
Todd
Not having to write CSS? That works for me. Where do I sign up?
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I constantly fight off the urge to say this here, but I do think the code
is part of the design.
Machine-produced page code is fine, but is it intelligent? hardly. Clever?
Not so much. CSS especially is a flexible and creative language… writing
page code isn’t an absolute mathematic - it can be inspired and inspiring.
When there is no one left to appreciate how people do these things, when
everyone sits back and just accepts whatever comes out of the faucet of
machine creativity… that will begin the end of hand-coding.
Sadly, the real direction we are heading in are web-design programs -
programs that don’t just write code for us but replace us altogether. They
will create sites automatically… they will remake the whole internet in
their image. What we see, what we know, what we think will be controlled.
Even our language will unify, and simplify, until we all can only utter the
same meaningless bleating noise.
Or, something like that.
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On 7 Feb 2014, 3:07 pm, The Big Erns wrote:
Sadly, the real direction we are heading in are web-design programs -
programs that don’t just write code for us but replace us altogether. They
will create sites automatically… they will remake the whole internet in
their image. What we see, what we know, what we think will be controlled.
Even our language will unify, and simplify, until we all can only utter the
same meaningless bleating noise.Or, something like that.
That is a very scary thought, but sadly I agree.
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Reaction from Macaw in this video:
…We don’t think an application will ever replace hand-coding, but we do believe that our tools should be smarter and they should help us automate monotonous processes such as basic layout…
That’s how I see it as well. Designtools that produce good enough code to give the output to front / back end developers.
This is a one way process. Just like FW, Macaw cannot read back changes made in the output. (As far as I discovered untill now).
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Important to note that these are very early days for Macaw. Their beta is what I would call an alpha, as there are major parts still missing entirely. It’s heartening to note that the Macaw file format is in JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) format, which means it is human- and machine-readable. I haven’t dug into it too far yet, but I don’t think that the entire layout is held in the .mcw file itself, I think that the HTML is being interpreted by the interface, at least in part. Round-trip may be one of the things they’ve planned but not delivered yet.
Walter
On Feb 8, 2014, at 6:32 AM, atelier wrote:
This is a one way process. Just like FW, Macaw cannot read back changes made in the output. (As far as I discovered untill now).
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Round-trip may be one of the things they’ve planned but not delivered yet.
Looking forward to it.
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I don’t intend to mothball my text editor anytime soon but I am curious to know if Macaw will make for an efficient prototyping tool. That’s my interest.
Todd
Reaction from Macaw in this video:
…We don’t think an application will ever replace hand-coding, but we do believe that our tools should be smarter and they should help us automate monotonous processes such as basic layout…
That’s how I see it as well. Designtools that produce good enough code to give the output to front / back end developers.
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