https://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
Websites that look like desktop GUIs
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#112Someone should load up a copy of Soashable. I ran it as recently as 2017 against the current Prosody, just enable BOSH and I think legacy auth (xmpp). The copy on SourceForge can be massaged to run with just the obnoxious browser detection check disabled as it fails in new browsers—an otherwine great 1.0, if I say so as the author a decade later. Xmpp4js that it usess also works in JS Core, as it has its own everything down to DOM. If I can get around to it I’ll try to get it up and submit it, but am homeless with barely functional IT and web access right now.
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#113https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386
Thanks. My most recent one took quite a long time. I'm going to be distributing floppy disks with it soon as a fundraiser I'm curious though: Would people be interested in tossing $5 or $10 my way for a custom labeled vintage 3.5 floppy, with my software on it, made to look like the early 90s, shipped to them? It's more of a novelty artpiece, I realize it, but I have a box of old floppies, a couple drives, a bunch of…
I'd get in touch with people such as LGR, Retro Man Cave, 8bit Guy and such.
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#114Desktop GUIs that look like websites :p https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)#...
oof... that list is not long enough
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#115Earlier 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
Does it work with milkdrop? That visualiser is exceptional. Unfortunately project M isn't as good.
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#116Thanks for sharing this, much appreciated. It will take some time to go through them all, but at the moment, Ash Kyd and Webamp stand out.
I was actually checking out Winamp a few days ago, as I was reminiscing about Geiss and Milkdrop.
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#117so nostalgic
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#118Interesting collection. Between the veritable homages (AV notification included) [0] and reinterpretations for various purposes (e.g., music player [1]), it's a fun mix! It also reminded me of the Nielsen Norman article exploring flat design and comparing it to three-dimensional design [2]. While it's becoming less and less possible, it would be interesting to compare the experience across different UX patterns for f…
These are interesting resources, thank you. One sentence stuck out to me in [2]: > Early pseudo-3D GUIs and Steve-Jobs-esque skeuomorphism often produced heavy, clunky interfaces. I think that this is an aesthetic assessment, not one that speaks to usability. And while older interfaces were aesthetically clunky, newer interfaces are functionally clunky - often hiding functionality (hamburger menu) and wasting content…
Unfortunately, in the new post-hamburger menu Android, the options that used to be available in the hamburger menu are now even harder to find. When they're still available in the main screen, they're also less useful--you have no idea what they do until you use them (I know I can long press, but family can't).
The best app UI I've seen, FBReader, has a menu, a drawer, and an action bar, and you can move elements between all three of them through settings, and for normal reading use the UI is hidden altogether. If you want to do anything advanced, it gets more difficult though--it has nested menus, though they're well organized IMO. Another UI that I like is Perfect Viewer's tap zones--it has settings for 3, 5, 11 tap zones on screen, and you can set what happens separately for long-press, single and double tap in each zone, plus swipe the top for brightness and bottom for progress control (like dragging a scrollbar, but for ebooks); probably overkill for most people though.
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#120I'm endlessly impressed at how good Synology's DSM interface is. The experience is so incredibly seamless in all the important ways. And it's not just a gimmick—all of the benefits of draggable, resizable windows are there: you can drag files between folders, you can open multiple settings windows at the same time, and so on.
There's a live demo: https://demo.synology.com/en-global/dsm