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Gradiator - CSS3 Gradients for Linux

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And what does this mean? "Gradiator was made on Windows with proprietary software" ? It looks like it was made with Adobe AIR

Could it be that they're just being up front about using closed-source software for development (e.g. an IDE they paid for).

It almost seems like a troll to me. It was written in Python.

Looking at the parent site CaffeinatedCo.de (http://caffeinatedco.de), they're a new "web design and development company." Their portfolio is empty at the moment, but Pun-King (http://pun-king.com) seems to be their other website. It's basically just a list of puns with a submit feature.

Not much to look at, although Gradiator looks somewhat useful.

Edit: Here are the authors:

George Czabania: http://stayradiated.com/

Jono Cooper: http://jonocooper.com/ and https://twitter.com/consindo

dude, they're high school students! Don't expect to see 20 sites and 12 apps on the site!

"Since our first computers were Dells and not Macs, Gradiator is free software."

Umm what? This whole thing (osx screen shoot, the bit about being developed on windows, ...) smells like a jape to me.

I'm quite confused. It's a CSS3 gradient generator for linux, yet the screenshot shows an image of an OS X app and the footer mentions it was developed on Windows.

I can only then assume it's an Adobe AIR app, in which case why isn't it just a desktop CSS Gradient generator for all three platforms and why not also make it a standard website if it's just HTML and Javascript?

It's written in JavaScript. As far as I'm aware Adobe dropped support for AIR on Linux.

We're almost finished with the Mac version of Gradiator.

http://todo.inatorapp.com - also work by jonocooper. One chrome app (over 1000 users), one ubuntu app (mac version in dev), three websites (though not all finished), doesn't seem like a bad effort for a high school student.

why isn't this a web app?

Even the first google hit for "css3 gradient designer" seems to have more features, http://www.colorzilla.com/gradient-editor/

Is this a joke?

Very nice. All my mac-wielding colleageues at work have had access to nice gradient tools and as the sole ubuntu user I was missing something similar. Great work.

What a hero.

You're all thinking too much!If you look at their site, they say they're high school students.

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