It feels smooth enough, drop it in something like Prism and you probably wouldn't be able to tell it's a web app. I use it with FireFox 3 on Ubuntu and the described shortcuts don't seem to work.Īside from that, it's the regular run of the mill, drag and drop objects where you want them. Gliffy provides the typical editor capabilities, copy, paste, cut, delete and undo, so most people should feel right at home, though I aren't sure how well the keyboard shortcuts work. It also stores a revision history for you. This is probably a compatibility issue, the complete SVG specification is probably very difficult to implement.įile formats aside, gliffy provides shared storage for your diagrams, allowing colleagues to work on diagrams created by you. One dissapointing part of gliffy, is you can't upload SVG files to edit, so we have to stick with gliffy itself to make major changes, Inkscape for touch ups etc. Another benefit, SVG is an xml format, we can stick the exports in the Subversion repository and diffs work great.
#Sequence diagram online giffy zip
The actual diagram I exported had an embedded image in, so Gliffy exported the diagram as SVG and included it with the image in a zip file, which also worked great. As you would hope, all objects in the diagram were editable, including the text. I tried the SVG export and opened the file up in Inkscape and was very impressed with the export. For those not in the know, SVG is a standards based xml format for storing vector graphics. provides export to JPEG, PNG and SVG formats. As a desirable, it would be nice if the format was none binary, so we can see the difference between revisions in the subversion repository. We have multiple platforms in use (2 linux, 4 windows), so whatever file format we use must be accessible to all developers. CollaborationĪt my workplace, we need to collaborate on diagrams. The gliffy examples page includes a class diagram and a network diagram, both showing these predefined shapes. Gliffy provides a reasonable collection of shapes and icons for all of these diagram types, which you can simply drag and drop on to your canvas. I draw small class diagrams, sequence diagrams, use case diagrams, simple flow charts and the odd network diagram. Next up, what do I need a diagram tool for? Most of the diagrams I draw are very simple. Some of them do particular things really well, but all have ended up not quite cutting the mustard, although some of these projects may have come along way since I've used them. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floorplans, user interface designs and other drawings online.įirstly, I've used many open source tools for drawing diagrams, particularly UML diagrams and they all have their drawbacks. This is far from a complete review, just some of the reasons we're making good use of it. I've been using for quite some time now and after recently signing up for a company licence, I thought I'd share my thoughts on it.