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		needz on Jan 18, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: JS Paint – A web-based MS Paint remake I don't understand why it needs to hijack the back button.

1j01 on Jan 19, 2018 | [–]

It changes the URL to store the image in a specific session, so if you close the tab by accident you can reopen it from history (or ctrl+shift+t in some browsers)

I've opened an issue for it now here: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint/issues/49

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