It looks beautiful, but has anyone ever found 3D "viewing" of 2D interfaces to actually be useful?
I dunno, I've never felt a reason to use Firefox's 3D DOM view to debug anything ever, or that it would help at all. If anything, the 3D view just confuses things for me, not being able to see how things line up, etc.
I'm very curious if this is just novelty eye candy, or if there are people who have found this useful in real-life interface work, and what those situations were.
I've found FF's 3D view to be very useful for debugging. Perfect for the times when you need to find that one div that is wide enough to cause horizontal scrollbars on your responsive design.
In UIKit it is very easy to create situations where you have subviews with the same frame as their superview, and this can nest a few levels deep. I work on an app that has a very complex view hierarchy and I always find myself in the 3d view because what I need to inspect is rarely the front-most view in the hierarchy.
I find the whole concept of the app questionable in usefulness.
We had actually thought about building something very similar a couple years ago, as at first thought seems like something that would be really useful, but found once we broke it down to the times it would be used it didn't seem as compelling.
There's a bunch of these apps out there now, and most also marry the feature of 'live positioning / updating' , which is still cubersome. It seems like it's actually showing there's probably a much bigger need for a good live themeing solution than anything.
I dunno, I've never felt a reason to use Firefox's 3D DOM view to debug anything ever, or that it would help at all. If anything, the 3D view just confuses things for me, not being able to see how things line up, etc.
I'm very curious if this is just novelty eye candy, or if there are people who have found this useful in real-life interface work, and what those situations were.