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Re: Show HN: Drawingboard.js

#31

Post by ollerac »

This is one of the slickest implementation of a sketching app I've seen. The API is nice and the controls are self-explanatory. I've been working on a drawing app for the past few months (journeyship.com) and I'm considering replacing the main canvas with a sketching pad like this one.

For those of you who are curious about other projects out there that offer similar functionality, take a look at these:

http://www.createjs.com/#!/EaselJS/demos/drawing

http://fabricjs.com/freedrawing/

https://github.com/SketchIO/Sketch.js

https://github.com/literallycanvas/literallycanvas

Re: Show HN: Drawingboard.js

#33

Post by Leimi »

ollerac wrote: post #31

This is one of the slickest implementation of a sketching app I've seen. The API is nice and the controls are self-explanatory. I've been working on a drawing app for the past few months (journeyship.com) and I'm considering replacing the main canvas with a sketching pad like this one. For those of you who are curious about other projects out there that offer similar functionality, take a look at these: http://www.cr…

Oh, never stumbled upon literallycanvas - it's cool! Don't know if I'd have made drawingboard.js if I knew it on the first place.

Re: Show HN: Drawingboard.js

#36

Post by Kiro »

jonas_b wrote: post #3

I don't have my phone with me right now. Can anybody confirm if this works on iOS? I'm asking because I'm looking for an HTML5 drawing script which works on mobile browsers.

Only the first canvas works on Android Stock Browser.

Re: Show HN: Drawingboard.js

#37

Post by nekopa »

jonas_b wrote: post #3

I don't have my phone with me right now. Can anybody confirm if this works on iOS? I'm asking because I'm looking for an HTML5 drawing script which works on mobile browsers.

Worked nicely and snappily on an iPad 1 iOS 5.

(added snark: how can this work so nicely and bloody OnSwipe and certain websites crash my browser instantly?)

Re: Show HN: Drawingboard.js

#38

Post by stevejohnson »

Leimi wrote: post #33
ollerac wrote: post #31

This is one of the slickest implementation of a sketching app I've seen. The API is nice and the controls are self-explanatory. I've been working on a drawing app for the past few months (journeyship.com) and I'm considering replacing the main canvas with a sketching pad like this one. For those of you who are curious about other projects out there that offer similar functionality, take a look at these: http://www.cr…

Oh, never stumbled upon literallycanvas - it's cool! Don't know if I'd have made drawingboard.js if I knew it on the first place.

Hi, I wrote half of Literally Canvas. It looks like we have a lot of overlap, but nice job on the fill and save features. We never got to those. It also looks like you're smoothing your lines, also very good.

I feel like we got "scooped" a bit with this, but at the same time we haven't worked on it in months, so congrats. :-)

Re: Show HN: Drawingboard.js

#39

Post by nekopa »

I did comment to say that it works well on iPad, but I would like to add that there are some interesting 'features' when using 2 fingers: they don't work at the same time,but on one board, it's almost like an etchasketch where one finger takes over from where the other left off, on another board it draws between the the fingers, and yet another board the draw point switches between where each finger is. Looks like fun to explore later...
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