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Amazing demo video buried in those comments: http://vimeo.com/41822151

Very simple and expressive, indeed!

Made by this guy: http://tobyschachman.com/

Indeed, my tool is very much centered around the drawing experience. It's all about the pen strokes, not the placement of established shapes.

Unfortunately no SSL, so I won't be enabling JS.

You can clone the repo, audit the code, then host it yourself if you want to: https://github.com/electronicwhisper/recursive-drawing/tree/...

If you're worried about someone MITM'ing you and injecting malicious code on random webpages you should be using a VPN.

Unless your local network or ISP is particularly bad VPNs only make it worse IMHO.

Yes, and you can trust your ISP and/or VPN and you have no way to tell if the origin web server is compromised and is serving malicious JS. HTTPS or not.