Polypane Reviews and details

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• 22 Unique Developer Resources You Should Explore

  URL: https://polypane.app What it does: A browser tailored for developers, enabling real-time testing and previewing of responsive designs. Why it's great: Test your site on multiple screen sizes simultaneously for smoother cross-device optimization. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Show HN: Linkpreview, see how your sites looks in social media and chat apps

  That's pretty cool! Get ready to keep these up to date monthly or become obsolete quickly. One of the downsides of tools like this is that your URL needs to be available online so if there's an issue, your iteration loop is quite long. In Polypane [1] I've built social media previews that work with any local URL but also let you overwrite that URL for the social media that display those. I built (and frequently... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

• Polypane 20: Browser features and performance

  The address bar in Polypane can match URLs and page titles based on fragments. So you can type po blo 20 to get to e.g. https://polypane.app/blog/polypane-20-browser-features-and-performance/. - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago

• Tools that keep me productive

  I had heard about Polypane before and I think I may have tried it a few years ago, but nowadays, It's a must for frontend. It helps you build out responsive, accessible apps with all kinds of goodies. Curious about it? I hung out with the creator of Polypane on a live-stream earlier this year. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• But can your browser do this? :)

  Exactly. That's why the emulation option in Polypane are like a mile long. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best way to test UI responsiveness

  Polypane is a browser purpose-built for testing UIs. Source: almost 2 years ago

• :root isn't global

  I first encountered this issue with ::backdrop: Backdrop doesn't inherit from anywhere but after a recent rendering engine update to Polypane I noticed that all my custom selection colors (also powered by CSS custom properties) suddenly stopped working. - Source: dev.to / about 2 years ago

• TIL: This option in Chrome DevTools makes it easier to test responsive designs

  Check out Polypane which lets you do exactly that! https://polypane.app It even has a button that will give you an overview of all your breakpoints right in the address bar: https://polypane.app/docs/breakpoints/. Source: about 2 years ago

• Best browser for development in 2023

  Https://polypane.app/ Pretty sweet. Source: about 2 years ago

• Developing for Iphone interface

  I built Polypane specifically for this! Check it out :). Source: over 2 years ago

• App or website to test in multiple screens

  Have a look at Polypane (disclaimer, I made it). It's free in the GitHub student developer pack. Source: over 2 years ago

• If it goes somewhere, it’s a link. If it does something, it’s a button

  Not to get off-topic, but in the site footer the author mentions he's the developer of: https://polypane.app/ Has anyone used it? Thoughts? - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Interested in testing my website on laptop, tablet, and phone screen sizes. How can I make my development server accessible only on my home network?

  Have a look at Polypane. It even has support for Bootstraps breakpoints built-in, and syncs interactions between viewports. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Anyone making a living building desktop applications?

  Yep. Been working on Polypane full time since 2019 as a solo developer. Electron based, available on mac, windows and linux, in x64 and arm versions. Its subscription based and I release a new update roughly every month. It was a side project before that but I started charging for it when I went full time. https://polypane.app. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Are there plans to build something like Sapper Studio for SvelteKit?

  I have a long fondness for visual builders that work well. Spent some time working with https://pinegrow.com/ but right now I find https://www.jetbrains.com/webstorm/ and https://polypane.app/ to be most excellent for SvelteKit. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Supabase Beta May 2022

  A browser that help you design, build and test better websites. Who doesn't want that? Polypane helps with responsive design, accessibility, SEO, performance, design accuracy, semantic HTML, social media tags... And everything else. Built by: @kilianvalkhof. - Source: dev.to / almost 3 years ago

• Aside from the devices themselves, what's the best way to test responsive design across devices?

  I use polypane, its really effective since it gives you access to multpile views of the same site at once while also providing seperate dev tools for every view. Source: almost 3 years ago

• W3C Proposes the Creation of a WebView Community Group

  Interesting. As someone using webviews extensively[1], the main issue is that the "iframe" model of security many operate on makes sense on the web, but not in native apps. When it comes to embedding third party content with iframes, you essentially want two-way security and privacy. The embedder can't change things in the embedded and vice versa. With webviews however, that model doesn't make much sense: the... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Is there a tool, to display all your responsive viewports on one screen?

  Polypane might be what you are looking for. Source: about 3 years ago

• App to check how a website looks in phone/tablet layout

  Check out Polypane, its a subscription but there is a free trial. Source: about 3 years ago

• Color Contrast Simulator?

  Polypane ships with a whole bunch of different simulators that help you get a feel for the experience someone has, like color blindness, dyslexia and blurred vision. This article mentions some: https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-find-fix-common-website-accessibility-issues/#visualandsituationalimpairments but since then astigmatism, tunnelvision, glaucoma and macular degeneration have also been added. Source: about 3 years ago