Awesome project! Would love to take some time to understand how this all works.
One tiny thing I noticed is that the build information tab seems to point to a commit that no longer exists.
Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
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Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
#112Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact: when you don't give a shit about whether your UI looks like what "the OS looks like" (no offense to Tantacrul, but audacity clearly doesn't), you can get a surprising amount of work done. This isn't a Windows XP application, it looked like this well before Windows XP existed.
As a game dev I haven't seen an app (except browser and terminal) that looks like the OS native UI for quite a while. Blender, Houdini, 3DCoat, Photoshop, Krita, FL Studio, Bitwig... all of them use their own UI widget.
I'm trying to think how you'd even make blender or bitwig look native, but then I remember the DirectShow node graph editor from the windows 98 days and I'm going to stop thinking about this again.
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fun fact: when you don't give a shit about whether your UI looks like what "the OS looks like" (no offense to Tantacrul, but audacity clearly doesn't), you can get a surprising amount of work done. This isn't a Windows XP application, it looked like this well before Windows XP existed.
Audacity is a cross-platform app that runs on (at least) Linux, macOS and windows (I suspect most other *nixes are supported to). Also, note that most creative apps (music, video, art) do not follow the UI guidelines for any particular OS platform (partly because they tend to be cross-platform, partly because their needs are very different from office productivity and communications apps. This is true even when the a…
So we agree: this appication/UI has nothing to do with "Windows XP".
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
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We can already do that for DOS programs, right? So a few more decades and it should work for XP too.
I still can't find Unreal Tournament 2000 running in the browser :( and not Return to Napali either :/ My heart will go on.
Fun fact: Unreal was the first real, major piece of software that got ported to run in the browser, in a collaboration between Epic and Mozilla... almost a decade ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-and-epic-preview...
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
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I still can't find Unreal Tournament 2000 running in the browser :( and not Return to Napali either :/ My heart will go on.
Fun fact: Unreal was the first real, major piece of software that got ported to run in the browser, in a collaboration between Epic and Mozilla... almost a decade ago https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-and-epic-preview...
Unreal Engine support is coming back to the browser, and with faster performance and load times than ever before!
My team and I at Wonder Interactive are building a hosting platform and suite of devtools that enable native games and 3D apps in the browser using WebAssembly and WebGPU.
Unreal is the first of many engines we'll support, we started with it because it has historically had subpar (and since the deprecation of HTML5 support in UE4, non-existent support for the web platform!)
Check out a few of our demos below, as well as a roadmap blog post we did last year:
https://theimmersiveweb.com/blog
Top down RPG UE4 game demo: https://topdown.tiwsamples.com/
Space game demo (UE4) - https://play.spacelancers.com/
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
#117Wow, this is incredible! I was not expecting it to work on mobile Safari of all things, but it does! The UI is even usable. Audacity is an indispensable utility. It’s great to see it and other “real” software on the web. I’m reminded of Photopea[1] which is a web clone of Photoshop. [1]: https://www.photopea.com/
> Audacity is an indispensable utility. It’s great to see it and other “real” software on the web. It's been a very long time since I used it, but didn't Audacity turn evil, add a bunch of networking code it never needed before, and start spying on people? ( https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/ ). I remember people reverting to older "safe" versions. I guess that doesn't much matter for this web app since…
I'll never understand peoples' obsession with equating telemetry with spyware. As an application developer, I need to know that my application is working appropriately for my users. It's not sufficient to rely on manual bug reports. If someone doesn't like that, then that's perfectly fine in my opinion. Just don't use the product. To accuse an application developer of spying on users is a bit much imo.
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Audacity is an indispensable utility. It’s great to see it and other “real” software on the web. It's been a very long time since I used it, but didn't Audacity turn evil, add a bunch of networking code it never needed before, and start spying on people? ( https://fosspost.org/audacity-is-now-a-spyware/ ). I remember people reverting to older "safe" versions. I guess that doesn't much matter for this web app since…
IMHO the spyware angle was overblown. they added telemetry to the dev builds. the real thing I took issue with was adding a CLA after the fact
So the stuff available on ubuntu/arch don't have spyware? I never heard about these changes, I did know some company bought it but didn't think much about it at the time as I don't use it a lot, but when I need it, it's quite handy
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
#119Wow, this is incredible! I was not expecting it to work on mobile Safari of all things, but it does! The UI is even usable. Audacity is an indispensable utility. It’s great to see it and other “real” software on the web. I’m reminded of Photopea[1] which is a web clone of Photoshop. [1]: https://www.photopea.com/
Yeah I didn't expect Photopea to be any good but now I use it all the time. Perfect Photoshop replacement for light editing.
better than gimp?
Re: Wavacity – a FOSS port of Audacity to the web
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This is the part I want to know also
I still do not understand. WxWidgets should rely on native controls rather then rendering them right? Does it mean that there is a branch of WxWidgets that renders the controls?
Maybe it's using gtk and compiling that to wasm and rendering via canvas?