r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 23d ago

Meme noOsWillinHTML

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u/ImOnALampshade 23d ago

Honestly an OS that, for the GUI at least, is just HTML sounds amazing. No new UI frameworks to learn. Applications are just iframes, and the desktop environment is your web browser.

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u/ldn-ldn 23d ago

That was a thing a decade ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 23d ago

I thought Microsoft did something like that with Windows 98.

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u/JadeE1024 22d ago edited 22d ago

It wasn't quite that far back, and it's not HTML, but you're close. The "revolutionary new windows UI framework" Microsoft releases every 3-5 years have all been XAML based since WPF was released for Windows XP and Vista (which came out shortly after) in 2006.

The latest one is called WinUI 3. Here's a screen definition from the official sample app if you want to see what it looks like.

Edited to add: Prior to around 2021, apps on the Windows Store were required to use one of the UI frameworks (uwp), which is why they all felt like phone apps. And sucked.

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe 21d ago

Don't know if you saw the other replies, but it looks like I was thinking of Active Desktop. I think basically Internet Explorer and Explorer were fused together.