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Re: EyeOS: your own cloud desktop

#11

Post by yangyang » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 5:29 PM UTC

I've seen this kind of "desktop in a browser" thing before and it seems a bit daft to me (and it certainly isn't an operating system).

There's so much scope for better metaphors than the "desktop" one. Google's apps are a good example of this.

Your browser already gives you far more efficient window management - why try to replicate in an incredibly inefficient fashion with javascript?

Re: EyeOS: your own cloud desktop

#12

Post by herval » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 6:38 PM UTC

Using a browser inside the desktop that runs inside my browser: priceless!

Re: EyeOS: your own cloud desktop

#13

Post by shawnjgoff » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 7:34 PM UTC

yangyang wrote: post #11

I've seen this kind of "desktop in a browser" thing before and it seems a bit daft to me (and it certainly isn't an operating system). There's so much scope for better metaphors than the "desktop" one. Google's apps are a good example of this. Your browser already gives you far more efficient window management - why try to replicate in an incredibly inefficient fashion with javascript?

It kind of is an operating system. Check out Process Manager. Read the developer manual.

Re: EyeOS: your own cloud desktop

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Post by figital » Fri, Jul 31, 2009, 8:01 PM UTC

yangyang wrote: post #11

I've seen this kind of "desktop in a browser" thing before and it seems a bit daft to me (and it certainly isn't an operating system). There's so much scope for better metaphors than the "desktop" one. Google's apps are a good example of this. Your browser already gives you far more efficient window management - why try to replicate in an incredibly inefficient fashion with javascript?

Then your desktop becomes more portable, collaborative, hackable, and open. Windows or OSX could make their local scripting environments more open and universal but they have 0 incentive. So eventually the browser will do it. Inefficiencies will be squeezed out over time. Tabs aren't really windows although they will be (or vice versa).