Polypane (Beta)

Cross-platform responsive design and dev browser

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Cross-platform responsive design and dev browser

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Polypane is a cross platform browser for responsive design, it shows your site in multiple dimensions all at once.

Launch tags:Design Tools•Developer Tools•Tech

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Roots: connect with nature

This reminds me of Blisk (blisk.io) but with less features and no current pricing model. What is the roadmap for features and do you plan for it to be a premium product? I was immediately turned off of Blisk's bait and switch approach and monthly fees.

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9yr ago

Polypane

Maker

@jesse_wallace Beta's free + usage is not time-limited (i.e. it will continue to work indefinitely) How does that pricing model sound? ;) What are features you want? My focus with Polypane is taking away the painpoints of responsive development. Polypane's focus is less on _devices_ and more on _sizes_ as I think that's where the focus should be when you create a website: The content dictates when to adapt the layout, not the device you happen to use.

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9yr ago

Roots: connect with nature

@kilianvalkhof Sounds good so far :) I like the idea of sized panes instead of devices. I think that works best for this type of browser. I think the other main things I'd look for are: - some style of synchronized scrolling - "mobile" device profiles hide scrollbar, desktop profiles show it - option to scale all panes at once - individual pane screenshots Probably the main things I didn't see in the demo video. Signed up for the beta and would be happy to give it a go :)

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9yr ago

Polypane

Maker

@jesse_wallace cool ideas, and happy to get your feedback! Synchronised scrolling + interaction via browser-sync works really well (but kind of outside of the scope of the video) and I like your other ideas!

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9yr ago

Wildcard (Pre-launch)

Hunter

Pretty freaking awesome if you ask me. Check all the screen sizes in one browser, I'm more into mobile app development but I can imagine how helpful this is for you front end webbers out there. So @kilianvalkhof tell us what's up... do you have some spare time or something? ;)

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9yr ago

Polypane

Maker

Actually I've been working on Polypane since 2015 (!) and it's taken a long time to get done but I'm so happy to finally share it with everyone. As it says on the website, Responsive design is hard! I hope Polypane helps other people as much with this problem as it helps me. Polypane is cross-platform and based on Chromium, so you get state-of-the-art everything as the basis. I'll be here in the comments all day, so if anyone has questions, shoot!

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9yr ago

Wildcard (Pre-launch)

Hunter

@kilianvalkhof sweeeeet! Well done man!

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9yr ago

is it possible to add multiple session? like twitter accounts or other related web apps that require login as user or admin? TIA

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9yr ago

Polypane

Maker

@menjxo All panes share a session, so that's not really in the plans. What do you want to use it for?

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9yr ago

Nicheboard

This is such a cool and much needed product but there is a very important feature missing. There is no way to clear cache! A colleague is having issues right now.

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9yr ago

Polypane

Maker

@citizenfatimah You can always use the devtools to disable cache just like in other browsers, but the upcoming beta has a dedicated clear cache + reload function :)

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9yr ago

Those extra features on the chosen font (see characters "s" and "c") seem very odd. This is so unusual that it draws attention and distracts from the actual content.

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9yr ago

Polypane

Maker

@boettges Yes, Ligatures are great ;) FYI: the current version does not have them in the address bar.

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9yr ago

Very cool! I've been using Duo (www.helloduo.com) for a while now so I'm curious about how this compares.

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9yr ago

Looks similar to the Emmet Re:view browser extension, which is free and also worth checking out (it's not my creation, I'm just a big fan of it): http://re-view.emmet.io/.

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9yr ago

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