Handles are now way easier to drag, with extended click targets, similar to Paint from Windows 7.
It's like not unreasonable to use with a touch screen now!
This applies to selections, textboxes, and the main canvas handles.
Resizing selections and textboxes when zoomed in is finally fixed!
The Text tool now perfectly previews the pixels that will be placed on the canvas.
What you see is what you get.
Also it retains all browser editing behavior, like spellcheck,
using a Convoluted Yet Elegantâ„¢ overlaying strategy,
which I prototyped here
and here.
(Text is still antialised, which doesn't work well with the Fill tool.)
The Polygon tool in fill-only mode now previews with inverted lines,
and when you finish the polygon, the boundary matches the preview strokes
by having a stroke the same color as the fill, as it works in mspaint.
All tool previews are implemented at this point: Free-Form Select, Select, Text, Magnifier, Eraser, Brush, and shape tools.
Zoom To Mouse
New: The Magnifier now lets you zoom to a specific location,
showing a preview of the new viewport.
Also, when zooming out with the Magnifier,
or changing the zoom from the toolbar or menus,
the top left corner of the viewport is now kept anchored.
Also, pasting a selection will now go to the top left of the viewport,
instead of the entire document.
The Grid, Custom Zoom, and Dynamic Cursors
New: The Grid. Zoom to 4x+ and use View > Zoom > Show Grid or Ctrl+G to enable.
This works with browser zoom as well to provide crisp gridlines even if you zoom in with your browser.
New:View > Zoom > Custom Zoom,
including an actually-custom numerical zoom option, unlike MS Paint.
New: Dynamic cursors for brush and eraser,
so you now have a preview of exactly where the tool will draw.
Also, in the event that your browser clears canvases to free up memory,
you should be more likely to be able to undo to get back to a useful state.
Full Clipboard Support
JS Paint now lets you copy real image data to the Clipboard, both with keyboard shortcuts and from the Edit menu.
This feature is available in Chrome 76+. Other browsers don't support it yet, as of Sep 2019.
Also: paste a URL to an image, and JS Paint will load it, as an alternative to File > Load from URL.