That's insane! (in a good way)
MSPaint in JavaScript
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Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#12This is nice. The Win95-Vista paint interface was IMO the best and i still dislike using the newer versions, especially since they screw up a lot of common things (e.g. try to draw overlapping rectangles).
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#13I had originally assumed this was some sort of webassembly port of the actual Microsoft Paint source code. But it looks like a completely custom JavaScript app built from the ground up to look and work very similarly to Microsoft Paint. That’s actually super impressive, although not quite the technological feat I had originally assumed. It does make this more dubious from a trademark perspective, the author might want to make it more clear it’s not actually Microsoft Paint.
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#14Threads from 2018:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16174478
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17275332
An almost unrelated but great thread from 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2305370
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#15Ah, this could be used as the missing paint in macOS. Even taking a screenshot and dragging it inside the browser works as expected. Is there an easy wat to turn this into an app that can live locally?
Paint is the only thing I miss about Windows.
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#16So sick. Did you make this yourself?
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#17Ah, this could be used as the missing paint in macOS. Even taking a screenshot and dragging it inside the browser works as expected. Is there an easy wat to turn this into an app that can live locally? Paint is the only thing I miss about Windows.
Presumably Electron, but it may be slightly more comfortable to compile something like KolourPaint for macOS instead.
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#18Konami code is in effect ;)
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#19Ah, this could be used as the missing paint in macOS. Even taking a screenshot and dragging it inside the browser works as expected. Is there an easy wat to turn this into an app that can live locally? Paint is the only thing I miss about Windows.
Download and unzip NW.js, create a file called package.json with the following text:
{ "name": "JSPaint", "main": "https://jspaint.app/" }
Re: MSPaint in JavaScript
#20I love the fact that even the retro Help application look and feel was recreated.