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A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by egypturnash »

_diyu wrote: post #13

Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn't. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make se…

Even better: skins that let you relocate everything. It was super-awesome to have a little cartoon cat sitting on a spaceship on my desktop, and poke at various parts of it to control Audion.

(http://egypt.urnash.com/portfolio/contragravity/)

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by nirv »

taytus wrote: post #114
_diyu wrote: post #13

Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn't. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make se…

I wonder why we are not skinning websites 🧐

Coincidentally, I just recently signed a tiny private Firefox extension to improve the readability of the HN comments to my taste :-).

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by egypturnash »

weavie wrote: post #23
_diyu wrote: post #13

Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn't. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make se…

Absolutely. I don't get why skins fell out of style. I remember back in the day when I was working on an accounting app, even that I made skinnable. You may just be reconciling your bank account, but at least you could do it in a form that looked like it was made from marble, or wood, or whatever you wanted! It just made everything feel just a little bit less tedious... at least to me

Apple's designers decided that looked tacky and stopped doing it; the rest of the industry soon followed suit. Now everything has to be floating in a screamingly bright white void, so that your phone ruins your night vision every time you pull it out.

(I may have opinions about this trend.)

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by bluedino »

digi_owl wrote: post #120
_diyu wrote: post #13

Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn't. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make se…

Used to be a thing on Linux DEs, but then one of the major interface libs kept screwing around with their themeing APIs...

Unity tweak tool lets you do it in ubuntu

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by captbaritone »

AJMaxwell wrote: post #132

I'm overly excited about this. Winamp was a huge part of my early computer experience, even went so far as to (poorly) design my own. Can't wait to start using this!

If you have any js experience, or want to develop some, feel free to reach out. I can find you an issue that aligns with your interests.

Re: A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript

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Post by captbaritone »

unixhero wrote: post #70

Amazing work. Moving the main application window around in the open blue workspace is so "native". It's like I just got a new OS right there in my browser. I wonder if I can get other things to run in the same isolated space??? To begin with how about something symbolic like XEyes or good old, in fact anything good old.

Check out http://www.windows93.net for a bonkers take on that vision.
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