I think this is the beginning of the end for Facebook.
Let me explain ...
Like AOL, Facebook is a walled garden reproducing what is standard and open on the web/internet as a whole. AOL had AOL email, Facebook has html homepages, and RSS/ATOM
But "people" cannot create their own content - they cannot write HTML, host web pages etc. But contenteditable fixes all that - and with the clever Dropbox tie in, anyone can start with a templated page, drag and drop images from their own desktop, (#) and publish themselves.
Add in RSS via Javascript and its all over.
(#) oh yes drag and drop images onto a web page - its soooo cool. Aloha supports it at least.
Interesting. Though of course you can just use my http://createjs.org/ and get pretty much the same thing for free :-)
Website looks really good!
Is copybar dynamically replacing the content and then next time when the page is loaded javascript replaces the content by fetching the value from copybar CDN?
At least it looks like copybar is not changing the actual CMS database content values. Please correct me if I misunderstood the mechanics.
The problem with dynamic replacing would be: 1) search engines get the old text 2) original CMS editing functionality becomes useless for that specific node.
The pricing seems way out of wack. If, for instance, I wanted to use your product to create a squarespace competitor, I'd need a $99 licence per user per month?
I can't actually think of a practical use case for the Pro-xx accounts. A fairly simple blog would easily have a 100 assets or more. Even a simple corporate blog would have 100 assets after a few months.
In particular, I'm trying to figure out what your expected use case is for the Pro-20 account ... what kind of site would I have only 20 assets that I want multiple editors to be able to change?
Websites tend to be many asset/many editors or many assets/few editors. I can't think of too many few assets/many editor situations.
Interesting concept, well done for shipping. Just a couple of points:
- You id="mask" element has a higher z-order than your formatting popup making it impossible to select styles in the demo.
- The blink from the original to the edited content is kind of jarring. Not sure where your servers are, but here from AUS the lag was very noticable.
- This is a peeve I have with all editors: When you select a H1,2,3 etc style the entire block is styled. This is the opposite of what users expect. Instead you should break that fragment out and run your execCommand on it. This way only the selected text receives the style and your users aren't left scratching their heads :)
- Consider adding an in-line editor for in-line images. Popping over a modal editor onmouseup is not intuitive for your average Joe.
...so my site would have and ADMINISTRATIVE/EDITORIAL feature that depends on a 3rd party service now?! Thanks but no thanks...
(Sometimes I wish people would go back to the golden days of "software as a product" instead of the current "everything as a service" way of selling things... I just wanna pay for it once, include it as a plugin for my CMS and MAYBE pay extra for some kind of support... and yes, I would be willing to pay for an upgrate to the next version too...)
Doesn't seem that anyone has mentioned this, but that watermark is the only thing stopping me from immediately putting this into production. Would be nicer from a consumer perspective if I could try this out in production with the full feature set, but just a limited element quantity.
Ohhhh, nice! This is sick, I could see using this as a way better CopyCopter replacement.
Just one small feedback as a designer, if you want to see more conversions for sign-ups, convert that black sign-up button into green. Other than that, it's perfect!
Looks really cool, but I was wondering if you could address a point with the pricing. In that context what does an "asset" mean? An editable area on a webpage?
Pasting causes tab to crash in Windows Chrome 22.0.1229.94
Does someone actually uses this tools for editing webpages? I find them really uncomfortable. Not trying to flame, just an honest question.
Any pointers on how to integrate with Django?
I don't get it. What is it supposed to do. I click on the big green "Try it now" button and nothing happens...
Good stuff. FYI, tried on Android, didn't work (nothing happens).
you have a link on the home page that points to http://copybardev.io:3000/examples ...
The tool looks great, but as a developer I have to say I still really prefer having HTML and CSS in front of me.
Glad to see that contenteditable-type editors are becoming more viable. Looks like Copybar uses Redactor, but I'm hoping bergie's http://hallojs.org/ gets a lot more traction since it's the only one that's MIT licensed.