Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by neeeeeeal 1222 days ago
With all the talk of X11 and .NET and Swift, has anyone considered that an embedded browser might function as a better desktop experience? Suppose Linux/Windows/Mac expose a browser that renders pages from somewhere in their file system as the “desktop”. To customize your desktop, just change the HTML/CSS/JS - easy. For bonus points, strip out a bunch of the clunky code supporting rendering the existing UIs to lean out the Os footprint.

Wouldn’t this be a bit better than what we are stuck with now?