macOS for Web

#1

Post by begoon » Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 9:55 PM UTC

macOS for Web
macos1.vercel.app

Re: macOS for Web

#2

Post by willcate » Sat, Sep 24, 2022, 10:46 PM UTC

Well I must say that's remarkably clever

Re: macOS for Web

#3

Post by biggerChris » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 5:16 AM UTC

Lol. Reminds me of those flash projects we did back in 2006 during high school and college years. Good times. Good to see the new wave of developers and programmers still upholding this.

Re: macOS for Web

#4

Post by tromp » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 7:13 AM UTC

Nailed the startup sound!

Also cool how the source code github link is just another taskbar icon (as is the author's twitter feed).

Re: macOS for Web

#5

Post by rkwasny » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:09 AM UTC

Feels a lot snappier than the real thing :-)

Re: macOS for Web

#6

Post by NayamAmarshe » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 11:41 AM UTC

Makes you wonder why nobody has made a javascript based WM or DE.

DahliaOS uses Flutter, wish somebody could do the same with JS.

Re: macOS for Web

#7

Post by kalimanzaro » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 12:25 PM UTC

WASM via SwiftUI/objC?

Re: macOS for Web

#8

Post by jeffreportmill1 » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

Here’s my thought: support drag and drop to the desktop so you can use this to easily transfer files between machines. Copy/paste might be interesting too.

Re: macOS for Web

#9

Post by simple10 » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 5:22 PM UTC

Here's the source: https://github.com/an0n7os/macos-web

And similar project in Svelte: https://github.com/PuruVJ/macos-web

Re: macOS for Web

#10

Post by stillkicking » Sun, Sep 25, 2022, 6:18 PM UTC

This is a detail, but it's imo illustrative of how refined Apple UI is and how easy it is to get it wrong.

The design of how the Dock scales and animates follows a very simple principle: if the mouse is outside the dock, and you move towards an icon vertically, entering the dock does not shift that icon around. Because that would make it feel "jello" and uneasy, like this imitation.