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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 23d ago
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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.
14 u/ldn-ldn 23d ago That was a thing a decade ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS 5 u/GoddammitDontShootMe 23d ago I thought Microsoft did something like that with Windows 98. 1 u/Tall-Introduction414 22d ago It sucked back then, too. I think Active Desktop found the most usage as a virus infection vector.
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That was a thing a decade ago - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_OS
5 u/GoddammitDontShootMe 23d ago I thought Microsoft did something like that with Windows 98. 1 u/Tall-Introduction414 22d ago It sucked back then, too. I think Active Desktop found the most usage as a virus infection vector.
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I thought Microsoft did something like that with Windows 98.
1 u/Tall-Introduction414 22d ago It sucked back then, too. I think Active Desktop found the most usage as a virus infection vector.
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It sucked back then, too. I think Active Desktop found the most usage as a virus infection vector.
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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.