IBM Open Sources Maqetta; WYSIWYG HTML5 UI authoring

maqetta.org

19 points·faramarz··8 comments

This looks really really bad. I don't understand why a company that size would not have a designer on board.

Not to mention it barely even works

"The Maqetta application is currently at preview level. By engaging with the community with Maqetta at an early stage, IBM hopes to collaborate both on product requirements and on open source development, with the goal that future releases of Maqetta will deliver strong tools for UI design and an efficient workflow between UI design and production development."

Compare this to Atlas http://www.2sidesdesignstudio.com/2009/11/atlas-overview-xco...

Maqetta needs to do some design upfront if they are going to garner any excitement.

I couldn't tell it worked at all. Dragging and dropping objects from the palette had no effect, nor can you draw them on if selected. You might think you need a "pane" but those don't work, either. This was in Chrome. A friend had the same result in firefox. I can't even get maquetta.org to open in IE9, but that may be stupid McAfee Web Gateway/Barrier. Why on earth would they "preview" an app that doesn't work at all?

I could create a new page, but that was it. most of the icon images are missing and nothing seems to work. what a mess

The site in inaccessible.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.maqetta.org

How could IBM screw up a web hosting solution? And how does that reflect on the quality of this web UI tool?

Worked for me, win 7, chrome 10, java 1.6. Looks useful, I'll be watching their progress.

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