img2html
Dev tools
code generator
SHOW HN2010
53points
32comments
#35of 370 in 2010
Top 10%of 2010 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 7 critical, out of 21 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Idea: 0 for, 4 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Impressive load time, largely due to gzip and RLE compression
From 3 comments
You're right and I should have paid more attention. I had thought you were generating just the image from a web page. Having actually worked on something similar, I can say I'm…
proexploit on HNProbably mostly the Gzip - the code is very repetitive. The RLE helps too.
elliottkember on HNBonus points for apparently using RLE for same-colour runs of pixels. :)
wzdd on HN
Objections
Renders poorly or not at all in IE9
From 1 comment
basically doesn't get rendered at all in ie9. big surprise.
aj700 on HN
Output is huge and bandwidth-heavy
From 1 comment
and all of the sudden, the new years clock done in sql seems useful. hope you don't go over your bandwidth quota ;)
darrenkopp on HN
Requests
Make it a bookmarklet that transforms the current page
From 1 comment
This is cool, but when I first clicked it I thought it was transforming my current webpage into HTML/bitmap somehow. I was amazed. Then I realized it's a statically generated…
roadnottaken on HN
Support working links in the output
From 1 comment
Now if only links worked. Then you would have created a modern image mapping service. I like it.
templaedhel on HN
Questions
How does it work?
From 2 comments
how?
EGreg on HNI thought he said he does it with javascript!
EGreg on HN
Alternatives named
Embed the image as base64
From 1 comment
If you are just looking to make a self-contained file that has the page as image, I would suggest you simply embed the image as base64. I made a bitmap -> <table> once, that was…
flawawa2 on HN
img-con image-to-HTML experiment
From 1 comment
Then turn it back into HTML with an experiment of mine: https://github.com/andershaig/img-con - It takes an image, writes a span with a background-color for each pixel. Turns a…
proexploit on HN