Svija Vibe
Dev tools
svg animation tooling
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
4 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 29 critical, out of 50 comments about the project. Thread score -0.37.
Design: 3 for, 9 againstIdea: 0 for, 7 againstExecution: 0 for, 6 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Interesting idea for animation via named objects
From 1 comment
Thank you. I really poured my heart and soul into this project, and I think that the idea of creating animation by naming objects in a graphical interface has a lot of potential.…
AndrewSwift on HN
Objections
Not accessible to screen reader users
From 2 comments
There's no way this is accessible right? Imagine someone with a screen reader opening this website and seeing nothing
warent on HNI’d honestly prefer an inline PDF. At least then I would probably be able to print it. This thing has all the drawbacks of a Flash-only site, except instead of just requiring a…
teddyh on HN
Requires Chrome or JavaScript; breaks in other browsers and without JS
From 2 comments
I’d honestly prefer an inline PDF. At least then I would probably be able to print it. This thing has all the drawbacks of a Flash-only site, except instead of just requiring a…
teddyh on HNThat web page looks… interesting without JavaScript https://imgur.com/ISKnuhT
zagrebian on HN
Not responsive; zoom and mobile bugs
From 2 comments
(OP here) The user can support whatever screen/window sizes they want, and set increments as they wish. I just do mobile and desktop because I'm mainly doing dev work and want to…
AndrewSwift on HNAre you on Android or iPhone? Which model? Which browser? I assume you are using the phone in portrait mode. This seems like an actual bug and I would like to try to reproduce it…
AndrewSwift on HN
Text not searchable or semantic as SVG
From 2 comments
The text is not SVG...
Ptchd on HNIf it was JPG or PNG, you could not select the text, embed links, or reuse parts of the page. And nobody could copy the source code to make the web a better place. When someone…
AndrewSwift on HN
Requests
Accessibility support
From 2 comments
There's no way this is accessible right? Imagine someone with a screen reader opening this website and seeing nothing
warent on HNSee my reply to whylo: I agree wholeheartedly that accessibility is important, but I can't devote engineering resources to it until I have a product that's compelling in its own…
AndrewSwift on HN
Print support
From 1 comment
If you can be specific about what is broken in Firefox, I would be grateful. I have tested it on both the Windows and Mac versions of Firefox and didn't see any bugs. I did…
AndrewSwift on HN
Questions
Does it support lighting effects?
From 1 comment
Does it support lighting effects?
thebeastie on HN
Alternatives named
Flash
From 1 comment
This is like the successor to flash.
nashashmi on HN
Inkscape
From 1 comment
We would love that. The problem is that only Illustrator leaves text as text and images as images — all the others except Inkscape convert text and images into data that's no…
AndrewSwift on HN