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About KineticJS

A canvas element hands a browser a rectangle of pixels and little else. Nothing remembers what was drawn, nothing can be clicked, and moving a shape means repainting the frame yourself. KineticJS was written for that element at the moment when browsers had finally made two dimensional drawing fast enough to build games, editors and interactive charts without a plugin. Released in 2011 under the MIT license, the library wrapped the raw canvas API in a scene graph of shapes, groups and layers, and added events, dragging and animation that the browser itself did not offer. Active development later stopped and the work moved to Konva, a community fork that inherited the design and the users who were paying attention.

As of October 2026 we detect KineticJS on 1,552 sites. A figure like that, for a library nobody has deliberately selected in years, is really a measurement of how long code outlives the decision to write it. The pages still loading KineticJS usually carry one interactive feature inside a much larger site, a seating plan, a product configurator, a floor plan viewer, a signature pad. Nobody rebuilds a working canvas widget because the library behind it was renamed.

Version spread is where the argument gets concrete. We record 11 distinct releases across the installed base, and the one we observe most often is 5.1.0, a build from the period just before development ended. A tail that long on an abandoned project means copies were vendored into application code and frozen, rather than pulled from a package manager and updated, which is exactly the pattern that makes this population interesting to anyone studying front end decay.

Two groups tend to want the list. Security and modernisation vendors want sites still shipping unmaintained JavaScript in the browser, because a dead rendering library is a reasonable proxy for a front end nobody has opened in a long time. The Konva ecosystem wants the opposite framing, a map of migrations that have not happened yet, which is a sales territory rather than a risk register.

A per domain lookup answers whether one site loads the library. The downloadable list answers the population question, which sites across an entire crawl still depend on it, so that a migration offer or a research sample can be built from the real distribution instead of from assumption. Detection is inferential and should be read that way. We identify KineticJS from the script it requests and the global object it defines, so any build step that bundles and minifies it into application code hides it from us completely. The count is a floor, not a census, and on a library this old the gap between the two is probably wider than usual.