I set out to tackle this problem a few years ago and while it was easy to rig up stuff to do this in Linux, getting anywhere near the rendering quality that I saw in OS X was impossible. It seems it may still be :-)
It was a couple of years ago now and I asked on Twitter if anyone would pay for an OS X powered Web page screenshot service and had a lot of response but.. busy with other things. Would love to see one though as it seems to be the only OS to render pages with any finesse.
That would be another cool feature for this - to pick your browser/OS to point out browser specifics bugs. There's already http://netrenderer.com/ for IE - but it doesn't let you do anything with the image.
That's obviously a very limited focus for a great general use app, but an idea.
http://snapito.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwhatsmyua.com%2F&x=...
Seems to be using webkit.
Whatever renderer you used to render the page has absolutely no antialiasing in its font rendering, resulting in pixelated rendering.
Yeah you’re 100% right about the fonts, I definitely plan to sort that out ASAP.
Also (this is just a minor nitpick), it'd be nice to not have to enter in http://. I'm using Chrome.
It would be 100x more useful if you added a set of tools at the right that emulate Skitch, so you could mark up a screenshot and then merge the edits into a new image. I would probably stop using Skitch immediately.
Also - if you're going to use KISSinsights to ask your users questions, ask a meaningful question. The current question is pretty obnoxious. Just my $.02
> cmd+l, cmd+c, cmd+t, sna, <down-arrow>, enter, tab, cmd+v, enter, right click generated image, copy link > cmd+shift+5, click once in my browser window, click once on share link
If there was a cloud solution that could do all of this, and provide a link that I could just send someone - it's just so much easier.
javascript:window.location=%22http://snapito.com/?url=%22+encodeURIComponent(document.location)
Interesting idea RE: skitch, certainly worth some consideration - I had considered annotations at least, and will take the idea very seriously.
RE: KISSinsights, I’m a bit of an amateur really so I just used the recommended free questions to get started with. But point taken :-)
Also, your site http://www.hashbo.com is down right now.
11. Full-page screenshot service that doesn't suck
I'm happy to be able to tick it off as completed by someone else. :)
Edit: I tried sending it a url with Typekit fonts on the page. No dice. I'm assuming that Javascript is turned off?
I'm sure quite a few web developers, especially startup founders, wish they did a better job keeping track of iterations and design changes.
So this came about because people keep asking me for what tool to use to full page snapshots. And while there are tools that do it on your local machine, most web tools are just focussed on integrating with other sites not the user experience. So I thought I’d give it a quick go - I’ll probably add the scaling stuff at some point, just want to keep it nice and easy for users at the mo.
Thanks for the feedback!
Neat idea though.
Love to hear of any ideas/suggestions you have, feel free to drop me a line neil AT snapito.com if you like too. I’m all ears.
Or in fact the website has some missing artefacts which confuse Snapito! Consider that bug firmly raised.