Comix Editor (cmx.io)

Creative

comic creation

SHOW HN2013

586points
109comments
#9of 1,739 in 2013
Top 1%of 2013 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

18 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 5 mixed, 13 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.

Execution: 5 for, 7 againstIdea: 9 for, 2 againstPerformance: 0 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 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

  • Impressive, intuitive editing of curves and object relations

    From 1 comment
    • Disappointed the top comments are criticizing and discussing the browser limitations. For a weekend project, this guy created a UI that deals intuitively deals with angles,…
      brokentone on HN
  • Markup-based approach is brilliant

    From 1 comment
    • OP is missing the point - the markup idea is brilliant. The WYSIWIG will come in it's million forms later and you shouldn't focus on it. I just need comix.vim and I'm good. I'm…
      tarr11 on HN

Objections

  • Requires WebKit/Chrome; blocks other browsers

    From 2 comments
    • "STOP! WebKit is required here. The Comix Editor was tested under Chrome. It uses some webkit-specific tricks." WebKit - the new IE.
      znowi on HN
    • A warning is fine, but I just hate it when a site doesn't even let me try in another browser. I use Firefox Nightly, maybe it fixed the issues that are breaking your app? If…
      Osmose on HN
  • Crashes Chrome for several users

    From 3 comments
    • This is neat! Unfortunately, the editor does not work for me. It makes Chrome crash the page :( I'm running Chrome 24.0.1312.69 on one of those new Dell XPS 13 Ubuntu machines…
      memset on HN
    • Aw, snap! Crashes chrome 24.0.1312.57 on Ubuntu 12.10. I tried opening the console to get additional info, but it doesn't show anything.
      darkstar999 on HN
    • Any known issue with Chromium? I just get an error message saying that the page script was taking too much memory and was stopped.
      Frozenlock on HN
  • Slow to make comics compared with Photoshop

    From 1 comment
    • Here's my problem. It works, fairly well. But I spent about 15 minutes doing one panel, trying to figure out the minor nuances. I kept thinking to myself "I could do a whole…
      eggbrain on HN

Requests

  • Visual editing that is more GUI-like

    From 2 comments
    • This is fun, but for it be useful in production the control scheme would need to be made more GUI-like. Great start!
      dominic_cocch on HN
    • I agree it has some great upsides. I love the idea of localization, and version control is nice to easily revert changes, etc. Having a scalable comic that can change text on the…
      eggbrain on HN
  • Support for other browsers

    From 2 comments
    • Of course :) However, it does limit feedback for any of us not using Chrome. Author is probably cool with that though as it appears and I commend them for not making us jump…
      yareally on HN
    • Good news. Comix Editor will work on Opera soon. And without my work :-) http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-webkit
      dr_win on HN

Questions

  • Can custom objects like trees and hats be created?

    From 1 comment
    • I agree it has some great upsides. I love the idea of localization, and version control is nice to easily revert changes, etc. Having a scalable comic that can change text on the…
      eggbrain on HN

Alternatives named

  • Photoshop

    From 1 comment
    • Here's my problem. It works, fairly well. But I spent about 15 minutes doing one panel, trying to figure out the minor nuances. I kept thinking to myself "I could do a whole…
      eggbrain on HN
  • Flash

    From 1 comment
    • forgive me if i've missed any sardonicism, but you might be interested in learning you are describing Flash in thorough detail.
      catshirt on HN
  • Microsoft Comic Chat

    From 1 comment
    • > Chat comics. It'll be 1996 all over again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Comic_Chat
      vidarh on HN

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