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Websites that look like desktop GUIs
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#42Fascinated and feeling surreal, that I was able to load Doom and check it out on my phone's web browser in https://www.windows93.net/ .
The MIDI library on that one is crazy huge. They even have LeChuck's theme from Monkey Island.
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#43Reminds me of an app I saw in the late 90's developed with Delphi. I never used Delphi, but apparently it had the ability to compile an app to an ActiveX plug-in and run a full desktop-like application in Internet Explorer. Of course, ActiveX had major security problems, but the UX was amazing.
I was a heavy Delphi user back in the day (late-90's/early 2000's) it was way ahead of the curve in terms of RAD that didn't gimp you as a developer.
Shame they decided to go for the large enterprise insanely expensive end of the market, if they'd done a decent commercial version for a 10th the price they'd have done much better.
Though the writing was on the wall as the cost of development tools trended towards zero - JetBrains have continued to prove that if you provide enough utility competing against free can be profitable.
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#44Nice to see Poolside FM with some Classic MacOS vibe instead of the common Win9x variations.
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#45So which of these has a good framework I can use for making a (fairly acurate-ish) fake desktop? I've looked at quite a few in the past, and haven't seen a good option yet.
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#46> You're currently viewing the No-JavaScript version of the site, what a boring life you must live!
Just has a simple rule: open any unknown website with JavaScript disabled. Permanently.
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#47https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!
I really miss Winamp!
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#48A major accessibility problem with this: the list uses s with click handlers, rather than links. This makes it not respond properly to clicks with modifiers (e.g. Ctrl+click), not have the right context menu options, not show the href in the status bar, and be completely unusable to users of tools like screen readers or those that would navigate by keyboard. Never ever do this. If it opens a new page, it’s a link. wi…
Accessibility is super important, but gosh your comment here is downright horrible.
It's neither not constructive, nor friendly. Nothing about the contents of the page itself. You're basically, rude and borderline hostile with italics emphasizing something the author /should not/ do. Horrible.
Where's your #1 Hacker News site? Where's your awesome collection of awesome sites that you shared with people. I don't see one.
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#49hey, thank you for adding me to your list.
made me happy =)
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#50A major accessibility problem with this: the list uses s with click handlers, rather than links. This makes it not respond properly to clicks with modifiers (e.g. Ctrl+click), not have the right context menu options, not show the href in the status bar, and be completely unusable to users of tools like screen readers or those that would navigate by keyboard. Never ever do this. If it opens a new page, it’s a link. wi…
Accessibility is super important, but gosh your comment here is downright horrible. It's neither not constructive, nor friendly. Nothing about the contents of the page itself. You're basically, rude and borderline hostile with italics emphasizing something the author /should not/ do. Horrible. Where's your #1 Hacker News site? Where's your awesome collection of awesome sites that you shared with people. I don't see o…
uh.... what