CanvasPaint was mentioned on Coding Horror the other day, in a quote of a Bruce Eckel article. Only he removed the link when he quoted that part. Boo hoo.

“…Someone did an imitation of the much simpler Microsoft Paint using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Very impressive, but you get the sense that this is close to the limit of what those technologies can do”

—Bruce Eckel

PS: This blog’s not dead. “It’s just resting!”

Some of my favorite reactions to CanvasPaint from the blogosphere so far:

»As proof of concept, it’s impressive and shows how close we are to migrating to a web OS.« —digital alchemy

»Might actually be faster to open it from your browser than to load it from your accessories menu.« —Straydog scraps

»Maybe we don’t need Flash so much after all.« —Adam Rossi-Kessel

»wow this person must have not left the house for months« —Justin Chelf

»HOLY CRAP MSPAINT IN A BROWSER. The Internet, by creating this work of Shakespeare, has proven that it is in fact comprised of an infinite number of monkeys with an infinite number of typewriters.« —del.icio.us user mav.rc

and then of course:

»CanvasPaint is everything Web 2.0 should not be« —Rafe Needleman