This is one of those just-for-fun websites that’s worth paying a visit to. Go to www.canvaspaint.org and check it out, come back, and now tell me that doesn’t look just like Microsoft Paint? Cool huh? Now of course, who really needs an online version when you already have the application on your own computer ( if you use Windows), and if you don’t use Windows, you could probably care less about the application anyways. Regardless, it’s still pretty cool, and a job well done.
According to the site, it’s a “near pixel-perfect copy of Microsoft Paint in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, using the <canvas> tag as specified by WHATWG and supported by Safari 1.3, Firefox 1.5, and Opera 9.” If you decide to visit and play with it, and you happen to create a magnificent drawing, you can save it to your hard drive using File > Download. You have to be using either Firefox 2 or Opera 9 for this saving feature to work. www.canvaspaint.org
One last thought, I’m surprised that Microsoft hasn’t gone after them for Copyright issues.
P.S.- Like my snowman I created in under a minute? Okay, so I’m not meant to be an artist…..
[quote]One last thought, I’m surprised that Microsoft hasn’t gone after them for Copyright issues.
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You spoke too soon. It’s not there anymore.
Wow! I can’t believe that. I was just on their site playing around a few hours ago. Now it’s homeanswers.com. Weird! I guess I did speak a little too soon.
I was just looking around the Internet to see if there was someone who mirrored the site, and I realized the site was .org not .com It’s been changed in the article and works now. Sorry for the inconvenience
My mistake.
MS Paint is too old software, and it is not worth copying. There are some advanced utils to choose from. For example [gimp.org] is free software, and it is advanced almost like Adobe Photoshop.
Yeah, Christopher Clay thought about copy right infringement too.
Why MS Paint? Most people think it’s worthless. Why not something original.
As worthless as it might be, there are still a lot of people who use it to do some of the more basic tasks. I find myself using it whenever I want to quickly edit or modify something and don’t feel like waiting for one of the more full-featured applications to load.