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Websites that look like desktop GUIs
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Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#102I wonder if I am alone in feeling that we have gone backwards with UI. 98.js as an example is beautifully simple compared to Windows 10.
Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Man I had so many custom skins for Winamp. It really was a different time back then.
I (author of Webamp) worked with the internet archive to archive ~50k Winamp skins. The collection even features Webamp integration is you can try them out in the browser. https://archive.org/details/winampskins
I really appreciate your work, this is awesome.
Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#104A few years ago, I made one that looks like NeXTStep: https://github.com/juddy/nextsite
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#105I miss the rise (and fall) of desktop.com (which is coming back under a new owner; some ideas never go away). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop.com for more. Katie Mitic and the Drebes had a vision for client-computing that was really fun, but browsers and the market just weren't there.
It's kind of funny: the iPhone was lauded for being skeumorphic and then that faded away. Desktop guis also went through this, at one end becoming Microsoft Home, and the other end being, well, pick your favorite Linux desktop ( 8-) ).
Is this a new wave, only instead of reflecting the physical world (why is the save button still a 3.5" floppy?), now it reflects a desktop gui?
Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#106It reminds me of these two CSS libraries
Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#107I wonder if I am alone in feeling that we have gone backwards with UI. 98.js as an example is beautifully simple compared to Windows 10.
We are not alone
Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#108Is there a case anyone can think of (other than backward compatibility with legacy workflows and expectations) that one would write a new browser app with an old desktop OS look and feel? That is, are there use cases that a classic OS's GUI excels at more than the typical web or mobile/tablet app GUI, that we have lost due to the typical style and behavior of the latter types of apps? I mean both the interaction mode…
Populating your own menus on c64 and using them with F keys allowed 900+ apm navigation.
Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#109Re: Websites that look like desktop GUIs
#110https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!
Only a matter of time, when someone throws an electron wrapper around it, would be funny