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Visual block syntax for programming languages
http://waterbearlang.com/
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Controls for types #77

Open dethe opened 12 years ago

dethe commented 12 years ago

Lea Verou's http://dabblet.com/ site has great controls for colour, bezier curves, timers, etc. We should have beautiful direct manipulation controls for types as much as possible, and visualization for other types (images, colours, vectors, dates, etc.). @gissues:{"order":87.1657754010696,"status":"backlog"}

TechplexEngineer commented 12 years ago

Do you mean more things like the color picker? I am not sure how to see the things you speak about in dabblet.

dethe commented 12 years ago

The screencast gives an overview, there are "small inline previewers for many kinds of CSS values, in particular for: colors, absolute lengths, durations, angles, easing functions and gradients".

http://lea.verou.me/2011/12/introducing-dabblet-an-interactive-css-playground/

For Waterbear I'd like do do more than previewers, and have editors to work directly with these types of data in a visual way. Lea Verou, the creator of Dabblet, also has a webtool for editing Bezier curves: http://cubic-bezier.com/#0,0,1,1. Taking this kind of thing and wrapping it into a small popup tool like the color picker would be awesome.