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> just tools that build HTML/CSS for you 1. not Figma or Flash: it's not practical or performant to manipulate HTML/CSS to achieve the creative freedom of a ve
by zackbrown 2y ago
> just tools that build HTML/CSS for you
1. not Figma or Flash: it's not practical or performant to manipulate HTML/CSS to achieve the creative freedom of a vector design tool[0]
2. the rest of these that build on HTML: not a single one of them exposes that code for manual editing, so they're not developer tools and their "alternate layouts" are proprietary + locked away.
The root issue: HTML was not designed to be a substrate for design.
[0] I don't claim this casually; I spent several years seeking to do exactly this with github.com/famous/famous and https://www.haikuanimator.com/ https://www.haikuanimator.com/