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Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by pkamb on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @01:13PM (#16224879)
I love the "elaborate desktop UI recreation web page", and it's inspiring me for my next Mac app's website. Do you have any resources to recommend?
Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by TheTon on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:03PM (#16225348)
I can't really recommend the approach in general. From accessibility or search engine optimization standpoints, what I've done is a disaster.

It's more just an objet d'art type thing, just this sort of stylized recursive, I dunno, joke thing. It was fun to make and for some reason Nick and I find the concept hilarious, but it's also ridiculous. When I told my family about it their response, to a person, was "but why?"

You're of course welcome to view source on the page and copy anything you like (it is just a web page after all), but if I was trying to market something serious, I would definitely do it differently.

Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by jmiserez on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:13PM (#16225429)
What's really cool is that if you save a video, then play it, and then save a video again, the small overlay player will actually show up in the second video.

Did you have to take care of that yourself?

Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by TheTon on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @02:45PM (#16225686)
Yeah, I render the video into the canvas, as opposed to positioning a video element on top of it, so that the capture will work recursively.
Re:Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac by frakkingcylons on Wednesday January 24, 2018 @08:30PM (#16228050)
This is hilarious. Great app by the way!