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Comment · 12 years ago
You have to lose :p
Comment · 13 years ago
Hi again guys,

For those interested in the technical aspects of this feature. I'm using phantomjs to create the exports. I tried two other alternatives before committing to it, and both proven less featureful: wkhtmltopdf and http://weasyprint.org/

weasyprint seemed like an awesome project, up to date and with an author ready to respond to issues. But with a default config it failed to render many of the CSS3 attributes used and had to take a safe route.

wkhtmltopdf was a strong competitor, it did some things better than phantomjs even, like the support for page-break- properties. But phantomjs stood out because of its JS api, being able to load a page, change a few classes and attributes in on the spot, and then render it altered.

There are a few things that I couldn't to with any, though. Like rendering a single page for the entire timeline. The page size properties are build for printing, so even though they support px values they don't amount to what you'd expect and they are too unpredictable to render a single page containing exactly to contents of the html document.

Let me know if you have any more questions, about this or the app. Thanks!

Comment · 13 years ago
No idea this existed, is it me or does Withings look way more awesome than the Nike+ gear?
Comment · 13 years ago
Ouch, sorry for that --- CTRL/CMD + CLICK ftw :)
Comment · 13 years ago
Update: Back up, also gave it more resources so hopefully it won't happen again. Thanks!
Comment · 13 years ago
Damn, it's timing out for me as well. I'll restart it immediately and stretch the Rackspace instance if won't take long. Sorry
Comment · 13 years ago
The static HTML idea is awesome! After all, the same timeline used now was a static template I made for me a while back, so that's how it started :)

This somehow fits into the "Offline exporting options" question from the landing page Quiz. Can't wait to extract stats from it!

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