I'm keenly interested to see if this provides a visual indication of markup or layout clutter/complexity. That would be nice for sniffing out UI design smells, particularly in big enterprise portals.
Sadly, when I launch the tool it seems to create an overlay that prevents input to the page but doesn't show anything. Not blank, just invisible. I can close the overlay and keep using the page. But, I can't see anything. Hopefully I can figure that out.
I plan to use this for a side-by-side comparison of my product, Oracle web UIs (I'm scared), some nicely-designed and clean sites and some prominent web apps like Amazon or Backpack. Might be a useful tool for me on the "Marketecture" side of things.
Got it working. Short answer, Intel igfx cards (aka, "work laptops") are garbage. Chrome WebGL worked, Firefox didn't. I got it working, albeit slowly, using OSMesa on Ubuntu.
Firefox intentionally disables graphics card acceleration by default on certain video cards because they don't want to deal with the support headaches from bad drivers.
This is actually very useful, Snoop is a utility for debugging the WPF visual tree and it has had this feature for several years now. I don't know if snoop was the first to have it or not though.
I don't know if snoop was the first to have it or not though.
I remember seeing a GIMP plugin a long time ago that would render a 3D stack of the layers in an image, but I can't remember the name of the plugin or think of appropriate search terms to find it. This isn't precisely the same thing, but the plugin, combined with the 3D filesystem view in fsv (as seen in Jurassic Park), influenced these visualization tools. Or, maybe they were all inspired by some much-earlier tool that nobody remembers.
This is very cool. I really like the effort Mozilla has been putting into showing people what can be done with modern web technologies recently. They've got a whole bunch of other cool demos at demos.mozilla.org
This is an awesome tool. I can't even tell you how much debugging time this is going to save me. Said time won't be reflected in my estimates or in my billing rate, of course, but at least I'll have more time to work on my RSS feed.
[+] [-] justindz|14 years ago|reply
Sadly, when I launch the tool it seems to create an overlay that prevents input to the page but doesn't show anything. Not blank, just invisible. I can close the overlay and keep using the page. But, I can't see anything. Hopefully I can figure that out.
I plan to use this for a side-by-side comparison of my product, Oracle web UIs (I'm scared), some nicely-designed and clean sites and some prominent web apps like Amazon or Backpack. Might be a useful tool for me on the "Marketecture" side of things.
[+] [-] justindz|14 years ago|reply
Marketing department power!
Hope that helps someone.
[+] [-] pkteison|14 years ago|reply
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Blocklisting/Blocked_Graphics_Drive...
How to check your settings: http://superuser.com/questions/259502/why-is-firefox-4-not-h...
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[+] [-] viggity|14 years ago|reply
http://snoopwpf.codeplex.com/documentation
(scroll to the bottom)
[+] [-] nitrogen|14 years ago|reply
I remember seeing a GIMP plugin a long time ago that would render a 3D stack of the layers in an image, but I can't remember the name of the plugin or think of appropriate search terms to find it. This isn't precisely the same thing, but the plugin, combined with the 3D filesystem view in fsv (as seen in Jurassic Park), influenced these visualization tools. Or, maybe they were all inspired by some much-earlier tool that nobody remembers.
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http://mcqueen.mit.edu/tilt.html
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