Microsoft announced in July of last year that it would permanently retire its classic Paint editing program in favor of the new 3D edition. The Web asked that Paint survive in some way, and Redmond's decision was to include it in its store as another app. However, some users have preserved the traditional Paint functionality in their own way, and one of the alternatives is JSPaint, which essentially behaves like a browser clone.
If you have the latest edition of Windows 10 installed, you'll see that Paint is still there. Of course, Microsoft's idea is that we use the new Paint 3D, but to be honest, it never quite clicked (just like many other things in Windows 10). The official retirement of Paint (once it takes effect) will actually be a kind of shift towards the store, meaning any user can reinstall it without major inconvenience... as long as it's acceptable to use Paint as a universal app. Then there's another detail: Paint remains a program exclusive to Windows. Its simplicity has been copied on several occasions, and it's not hard to find graphics editors vastly superior to Paint on other operating systems, but the only way to preserve it completely is to remove the 'platform factor' from the equation.
That's when JSPaint comes in, a clone of Paint made in JavaScript that works directly on a compatible web browser. Its interface is almost identical to the one Paint had in Windows 9x, and besides being very easy to use, it will likely bring back some good memories. The project is led by Isaiah Odhner, and its code is available on GitHub. The basic experience is intact, but there are also other improvements, such as an infinite number of 'undo' and 'redo', editing transparent images (that wasn't possible in the old Paint builds), opening SVG files, creating animated GIFs, and several additional keyboard shortcuts, among other things.
JSPaint works perfectly in Chrome, Firefox, and even Microsoft Edge. It also has no external dependencies, but it lacks support for other languages, so for now we must enjoy it in English.
