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by garganzol 1185 days ago
Choosing HTML for UI subsystem of an operating environment is refreshing. Is there a demo URL?
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pjmlp 1185 days ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
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garganzol 1184 days ago
Active desktop was not a proper UI subsystem for apps. It was just a "content" on the Desktop and maybe in some folder views with appropriate desktop.ini file.
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pjmlp 1184 days ago
Nope, it was also one of the first Electron like distribution formats, with packaged Web applications.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML_Application

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MillionthOdin16 1185 days ago
You can run a demo with docker pretty quickly, but I didn't see any live demos. I was able to get it running with a one-line command though.
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