7 comments

  • Tait BrownTait Brown, 7 years ago

    Please keep in mind that the https://designcode.io/ website being pulled in as a thumbnail is an 11.1MB download. If you're doing this to simply avoid using an external service I would advise against this, as it's pretty user hostile.

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    • James FutheyJames Futhey, 7 years ago (edited 7 years ago )

      Thanks! Yes, this is probably a terrible example for the demo, but this technique can and is used in many web applications utilizing user-generated content (for example, codepen).

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      • Julian LengfelderJulian Lengfelder, 7 years ago (edited 7 years ago )

        My first thought after I finished reading was, that this is going to impact performance pretty badly. I find codepen in some cases has issues because of the iframed websites, especially if I am on a slow connection.

        I would love if you mentioned the performance considerations in your post.

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  • Rick LanceeRick Lancee, 7 years ago

    RIP bandwidth.

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  • Florian BauernfeindFlorian Bauernfeind, 7 years ago (edited 7 years ago )

    I'm sitting currently at a railstation and this codepen snippet took 6 Minutes to load. Please, don't ever use that on production-ready sites :( Nice idea tho ;)

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  • James FutheyJames Futhey, 7 years ago (edited 7 years ago )

    I spent some time recently documenting the process we used for this technique. Hopefully this is useful to other designers as well. Feedback appreciated. Thanks!

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    • Jamie WilsonJamie Wilson, 7 years ago

      Thanks for putting this together!

      I've explored this approach in the past but abandoned it as it wasn't a good fit for the type of project I was working on. But it's a really cool technique for a case where there are limited numbers of "thumbnails". Especially for a site like Codepen with a very light footprint for each "Picked Pen".

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