This is the best replica of mspaint I have seen everything looks and behaves exactly the same , well done!
XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html
That's awesome! Someone should post this on HN.
Indeed! So we could discuss about it!
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#73This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
Yup, during college I even created electrical schematics in MS Paint during one course, nobody believed it was done using it :) Although I must admit creating schematics in CAD software is more sane ;)
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#74Nice work! Please add a LICENSE file
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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Kolourpain is better. It does transparency, fill with a configurable distance, and supports more file formats. Other than these, it's quite similar :) https://kde.org/applications/graphics/org.kde.kolourpaint http://www.kolourpaint.org/screenshots.html (that website could use an update...)
Photoshop is better, or should I say https://www.photopea.com/ Is Kolourpaint available as a website I can visit right now? Lots of editors are "better" from a feature standpoint. That's not the feature that is relevant to the discussion.
I'm sorry if I should have been more nuanced. Lack of transparency support was my number 1 pet peeve back with mspaint.
Kolourpaint's scope and interface are similar. It can be found in most distributions'packages, and on flathub. Looks like nobody bothered to package it for windows, though, which is a shame.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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What is the difference between those two?
The main differences are: * it works totally offline (it performs no XHR requests and none of the libraries are linked to CDNs or other sites) * is contained within a single ~1 MB in size .html file (I baked all images, scripts, style sheets, etc. within a single file) * is lighter, as I removed some features to keep it closer to the original (but kept a few like the history and rendering as a GIF) * is Win XP themed…
Cool!
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the difference between those two?
The main differences are: * it works totally offline (it performs no XHR requests and none of the libraries are linked to CDNs or other sites) * is contained within a single ~1 MB in size .html file (I baked all images, scripts, style sheets, etc. within a single file) * is lighter, as I removed some features to keep it closer to the original (but kept a few like the history and rendering as a GIF) * is Win XP themed…
Is it possible to save it locally and work on that?
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#78This version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
Isn't mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a ribbon instead of a toolbar? I don't much care for the ribbon but I'm used to it now. Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the existence of the snipping tool... Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I felt as if I was still using the same old paint…
No, it is a very different application. For example when you draw something, like a rectangle, and then you try to draw something else over it, it instead moves the rectangle - failing to do the most basic task: being a paint program.
It does have some nice features, like the premade shapes and brushes, but those could have been added to the previous MS Paint application without breaking its UX.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
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Kolourpain is better. It does transparency, fill with a configurable distance, and supports more file formats. Other than these, it's quite similar :) https://kde.org/applications/graphics/org.kde.kolourpaint http://www.kolourpaint.org/screenshots.html (that website could use an update...)
Photoshop is better, or should I say https://www.photopea.com/ Is Kolourpaint available as a website I can visit right now? Lots of editors are "better" from a feature standpoint. That's not the feature that is relevant to the discussion.
Wow, Photopea runs extremely smoothly. On my old laptop it runs better than native image editors.
Re: XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
In fact, you don't need to go to all this trouble if you don't want to. Someone has made a web-based version of paint you can use right from your browser, even if you don't have Windows installed. Link: https://chowderman.github.io/xp-paint.html
That link is … well, the link for this thread.
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