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Best I can tell, it turned into Google Web Designer!

I'm on the outside, but best I can tell:

- You're thinking of a UI design tool called "Ninja"

- Google purchased Motorola Mobility and the Ninja project got cancelled

- Google launched Google Web Designer, that basically had an almost identical UI. As far as I can tell the internals are different, but probably shared some code or at least design work.

Hit command-t for file > new > new window tab. Then if you want you can drag out the tab into a new window. Now you can view these both at once.

Window tabs are weird but powerful. You can even name them and then have the preferences > behaviors show or hide these named ones at certain times.

I don't know about "working" but most recently it looks like AlterEgo has gotten closer to a shipping product and did a publicity launch ~a month ago.

I only have the "final" 13.5kb version to test against. It compresses very well:

  gzip:     6.95kb    (98.9%)
  brotli:   5.99kb    (99.0%)

Context is the rest of the sentence:

> and polish on the app for free forever

But even "bug fixes" are sometimes not cleaning up your own issues; for example, macOS updates regularly will break apps. It's like paying someone to lay down a lawn for you and expecting the grass will never need cutting.

> It also feels super shitty to launch 1.0 out of the blue AND then expire the public beta builds that we have been using for 3 years with 4 days notice...

The 1.0 has a 14 day trial, so that at least extends it to 18 days notice.

It really seems like the beta program might have been a victim of its own success (and ridiculously long duration).

It is interesting to look at it through the lens of what's the social contract between a beta user and a developer? I feel the basics are that users get access to features ahead of time in exchange for reporting bugs if they discover any, but nowadays perhaps folks think there should be more they get out of it? Of course it isn't fun to beta a pre-1.0 product and have the workflow disturbed because the price isn't palatable, but that's the risk?

If you're on a retina display, I recommend adding this CSS so it uses nearest-neighbor interpolation for the scaling:

  img {
    image-rendering: pixelated !important;
  }

Thanks for your work in developing this!

Does Lexical have a feature to set arbitrary CSS on a particular selection range? I've been looking for a solution to do this since the WebKit's -[WebView applyStyle:] is deprecated as part of WebView Legacy. It isn't clear to me from glancing at the docs if RangeSelection.formatText() or other methods can handle anything or just a subset of styling code. Thanks!

It wasn't in the above list, but Apple did completely remove PHP in Monterey.

I'd say the difference in HyperCard and Visual Basic is that they also define their runtime environment. The IDE can grow with the runtime. Writing tooling against a vast runtime like the web is much more difficult and daunting.

A 1.0 would need to address a large enough surface area of the web to be useful. There's also a discordance between hand-coding "friendly" HTML/CSS and what would be exposed in a WYSIWYG tool. Further complications are all the new and old bugs in browsers.

That said, every day I was working on Hype 1.0 in early 2011, I would nervously check Hacker News for a "Show HN" post for a HTML5 animation app that would steal the thunder; luckily none came. This is even more surprising given Hype exports were mostly compatible with Internet Explorer 6 -- such an app could have been written long ago.

It echoes a Confucius quote I like: “Learning without thinking is useless. Thinking without learning is dangerous.” (Analects 2:15)