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Building UI in Google Apps Script just got a whole lot easier

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67 pointsabraham14 comments

If you're just looking for a UI builder and are not looking for anything on the backend, I'd encourage you to check out my app, Lean Designs [1], an HTML5-based WYSIWYG website builder. If Photoshop and Dreamweaver had a baby and then it went on a heavy diet, I'd like to think it would look something like Lean Designs. :)

Here's an example of a site created with it (keep in mind all the HTML and CSS is generated algorithmically):

http://www.leandesigns.com/designs/3954/16efd20996

[1] http://www.leandesigns.com

There is a vertical scroll bar in your first link under Chrome

http://i.imgur.com/mk2IX.png

Thanks -- I'll get on it. What version of Chrome are you on?

If you or anybody reading this has the know-how to determine what's causing the scroll bar to get added, it would help me troubleshoot it as I can't reproduce it on my version of Chrome (13.0.782.15 dev). Based on your screenshot it looks like the scroll bar is being added to the wrapper in that section of the page.

i see the scroll bar as well. look at div.wrapper {overflow: auto;}

If anyone stumbles across this who sees the scroll bar, please drop me a note: matt@leandesigns.com -- would love a few minutes of your time to help resolve this.

Must be something in the water! We just released a "content focused" mockup tool based on Decal CMS http://decalcms.com/mockups/

It looks like google has reimplemented VB6 for javascript.

The glue that powers more small business systems than anyone could ever imagine. Wow this is pretty huge.

At least Javascript is a proper language (even though it has a few warts). It's a scheme after my own lisp/

This is the first time I've seen Apps Script and I was thinking along the same lines. It's like VB6 with all of the Google Cloud goodness built-in. The GMail API looks especially promising.

Wouldn't Visual Basic for Applications be a more appropriate comparison?

Is GAS still super slow? I don't care how fast I can develop my app on top of a spreadsheet if it runs slower than my abacus.

Springbase is fast. Try it out and let me know what you think: http://www.springbase.com

Yes, it can be VERY slow. But for us it's so valuable (allowing us to build a custom CRM on top of gmail and google spreadsheets) that it's good enough for now.

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