Sketchpad

Sketchpad by Michael Deal uses the canvas element and a lot of JavaScript to create an impressive painting application.

Sketchpad’s drawing tools allow for the usual brush, pencil, fill and text items but it also provides tools for spirographs, unusual shapes and stamps. Applying a pattern to these items is simple, meaning it’s easy to create something artistic even if you’re not particularly artistic yourself.

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Info

Type:
Applications, Graphics
Author:
Michael Deal
Posted on:
February 12th, 2010
Posted by:
Andi Smith
Views:
19859

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Comments

Andi Smith

If you create anything impressive, why not add it to the Flickr group?

http://www.flickr.com/groups/sketchpad/

Posted on February 12, 2010

Semio

WOUAAAAA !! AMAZIIIIINNG 8|

Posted on February 12, 2010

Chuck

Truly impressive. Hello web three O!

Posted on February 12, 2010

Levi Aho

Nice, works in Firefox 3.0.6 no problem. Quite impressive.

Posted on February 25, 2010

Carlos Bacco

It seems OK in Opera 10

Posted on March 1, 2010

Theo

My God, that is awsome. Bye Flash, it wasn’t nice knowing you.

Posted on March 13, 2010

jon-e

Brilliant work.

Posted on March 27, 2010

zhurino2

叹为观止!

Posted on April 2, 2010

asasawa

叹为观止! < YES YOU ARE RIGHT!

Posted on April 3, 2010

Abadidea

Broken on iPad– any attempt to draw results in dragging the screen around instead. The harmony drawing demo works, so there is probably a way to fix this?

Posted on April 25, 2010

Sammi

Wow, nice. Safari 4 on Mac 10.6.

Posted on April 29, 2010

Pave

Nice work, works in Konqueror 4.3.2 ;)

Posted on May 3, 2010

ravorona

Mlay le aza a

Posted on May 4, 2010

57Goldtop

Doesn’t work on the iPad.

Posted on May 5, 2010

Fabio

No less then AWESOME

Posted on May 23, 2010

joenes

That had to take some time! very well done.
it definitly shows what is already possible, i’m really curious what the future holds with time website’s change into full rich applications..
and not becouse it is effective but just becouse it is possible.

anyway awsome!

Posted on June 25, 2010

John Doe

Sketchpad also works on Opera

Posted on November 12, 2010

Faizan

nice,
it seems an end to silverlight ???

Posted on November 12, 2010

Bob Stringer

Tried on the iPhone. And it is unusable.
Sort it out, what a load of rubbish.

Very disappointing.

Posted on November 12, 2010

max

nice. thanks man.

Posted on November 28, 2010

fox

Very nice,
It would be great if there would be some kind of tutorials around or even a IDE like Flash Builder/Catalyst so that more people could create such kind of apps rather than only a very few.
That would make the web much more enjoyable :)

Posted on March 22, 2011

Matt Austin

Amazing, but nothing’s happening when I click on the floppy/save icon in FF 3.6.17

Posted on June 23, 2011

Toney Montag

What a thought provoking update, how can I make is so that I get an alert email every time you write a new update?

Posted on August 26, 2011

arina

awesome i can believe it .how is it possible !!!

Posted on October 16, 2011

martijn

very impressive. Wondering what can be done for iPad/iOs where the tough is used to scroll the page. Disable it?

Posted on December 15, 2011

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