This seems like software that would take over the computer, such as a customer service app, a monitoring app, etc. In other words, it might be the only thing your running on the computer (in the foreground). I rarely use a desktop app that makes use (effective or otherwise) of multiple monitors.
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#12Great library, seen it pop up here a few times. Slightly off topic, on the website it says: > "free as in beer, speech & love" ...In what world is beer free? ;) haha
Probably the same world where speech and love are free. :) Roughly: Free as in beer means you don't have to pay money to use it. Free as in speech means you have freedom to use or modify it in any way you want Free as in love means it will happily plays with all other software and systems
Ah, I could figure out the beer from the other two but I couldn't tell the speech-free apart from love-free.
They should also add "Free as in dom" meaning the word used as a political ploy to have people conform to your point of view
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#13It renders totally non-usable on mobile S:
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#14I like the concept. One thing that stands out for me though is its dependency with jQuery. Not sure if it is a deal breaker, but if one could ship quality and nicely looking apps with it, then the same won't really matter.
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#15After making 5 clicks something broke and one div renders at the bottom of the page :(
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#16For those who have checked this before: The license has changed from GPL to MIT.
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#17For those who have checked this before: The license has changed from GPL to MIT.
Looks like this change occurred over a year ago.
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#18In a game development shop a lot of people would use multiple monitors (usually 2 or 3). Their level/model/etc. editor would normally do proper window docking, where it would restore the previous state of windows properly (or at best it could). To me it's one of the things where desktop still shines (apart from other things). But if this is possible with the browser, then it might change the mindset.
I haven't tried it yet, as I'm typing from my "single"-yet screen laptop, but would try it out later again.
I hope it preserve/restore the layout as it was, but other than that it looks really sleek!
Visual Studio kind of established how docks should work, and other Ui systems still need to catch up (Qt I'm talking about you :)).
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#19Great library, seen it pop up here a few times. Slightly off topic, on the website it says: > "free as in beer, speech & love" ...In what world is beer free? ;) haha
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#20I think the last time I saw this it was a spinoff off a market trading application that was (at the time and even now) one of the most impressive web applications I'd seen.
I can't remember the damn name though.