Re:Polypane 18: Introducing Polypane Portal
by kilian on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:54AM
(#39468919)
It's so cool seeing this on the HN homepage! Hey folks, I'm the solo creator of Polypane, the web browser for developers.
This latest release has a new feature called Portal, that lets you share your localhost with any device (local network or through a randomly generated public URL).
That's cool but what's new compared to other similar tools is that anything you do in Polypane, like scrolling, clicking and typing, but also our layout debugging and any editing you do in the Polypane devtools also happens in all of the connected browsers, so you can quickly test fixes across rendering engines, or share your localhost with a team mate and suggest changes on the fly.
Re:Polypane 18: Introducing Polypane Portal
by dvsk on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:46PM
(#39470531)
Hi Killan, thanks for making this software. I remember in the past I use to sub, but found it too expensive. However with this ever increasing feature list and how those features will solve several pain points I face daily, I’ll be resubbing today. Portal looks great and that’s the final feature that has won me over.
Re:Polypane 18: Introducing Polypane Portal
by alextrost on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:33AM
(#39469510)
Already tried this and it works so well. Really great being able to send my dev server to my phone through Polypane like this. Makes a super useful tool even more useful.
Re:Polypane 18: Introducing Polypane Portal
by fouc on Thursday February 22, 2024 @10:11AM
(#39468230)
> This doesn't feel like a big deal but apparently it can be a major browser feature announcement so: We now support the Perplexity search engine in the browse panel.
This latest release has a new feature called Portal, that lets you share your localhost with any device (local network or through a randomly generated public URL).
That's cool but what's new compared to other similar tools is that anything you do in Polypane, like scrolling, clicking and typing, but also our layout debugging and any editing you do in the Polypane devtools also happens in all of the connected browsers, so you can quickly test fixes across rendering engines, or share your localhost with a team mate and suggest changes on the fly.
Hope you all check it out :)
Looks like there are a lot of other features in this software, though.
nice!