In part five of the series about the making of the web-based Microsoft Paint clone paint.js.org, I want to show how to implement support for dark mode in your web applications.
In this fourth part of the series about the Microsoft Paint remake on paint.js.org, I want to demonstrate how you can save your drawings to your local disk, read them back later and how to add your web app as a handler for certain file extensions.
In part three of the series about the making of the web-based Microsoft Paint clone paint.js.org, I want to show how you can copy drawings from the Paint clone to other applications and paste them back.
After introducing into the project about the web-based Microsoft Paint clone in the first part of this series and talking about the choice of Web Components and the architecture of paint.js.org, I now want to demonstrate how I implemented the drawing functionality.
Progressive Web Apps and the new powerful web APIs provided by Project Fugu allow developers to implement desktop-class productivity apps using web technologies. In this six-part article series, Christian Liebel shows you the critical parts of how paint.js.org was made, a web-based clone of the productivity app dinosaur Microsoft Paint. In this first article, Christian gives you an overview of the project, explains the choice of Web Components, and discusses the basic app architecture of the web-based Microsoft Paint clone.
Creating mobile and desktop applications is a complicated task. Different operating systems require us to have in-depth knowledge of multiple platforms. The web solves most of the problems for us by providing a single platform that runs everywhere – supported by different operating systems and browser vendors. Frameworks like Angular bring the power to write business applications for the web and make a once written application available to everyone.
In the previous parts of this article series, we learned that Apple does not support the standardized web-based push mechanisms, and there is no sign of a possible timeline for implementation. Therefore we have to look at additional ways to bring the users‘ attention back to our application. Let’s use the final article of the series to have a quick look at some approaches that will let us send some form of push message without using the Push API.
„Bitte prüfen Sie, ob eine Verbindung zum Internet vorhanden ist“ – ein Satz, den wir alle kennen, wenn wir eine Anwendung nutzen wollen, die nicht offline verfügbar ist. In diesem Artikel zeigen wir, wie man eine bestehende (Angular-) Anwendung und ihre Daten offline nehmen kann, welche Herausforderungen uns dabei erwarten und was genau Offlineverfügbarkeit tatsächlich bedeutet. Die Konzepte sind dabei auf alle Arten von Frameworks anwendbar.
Progressive Web Apps (PWA) are one of the most promising new technologies for the web. They enable web apps to be used similar to native apps: they can be installed on the home screen and, with some additional work, also run offline. Apart from that, you also need access to platform features like notifications, the clipboard, or camera.
The third part of the PWA push notification series will take a closer look at the HTTP Web Push protocol. If you want to learn more about the Notifications API or the Push API, check out the first two parts.
