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>Somewhere around this point, people began spewing mindless drivel about how browsers would somehow magically replace operating systems eventually, and how in the future all applications would be "web based".

From you:

>a desktop environment made with Electron today.

A browser DE would be great. ;w; A crossplatform shell with the same tray and file manager and everything? Wherein I can open a browser and play crossplatform browser games[0]?

When pls

0: https://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/




Explorer under W98 was basically IE. Kinda like KDE3 with Kparts, but far more insecure.

On your link:

Exception thrown, see JavaScript console


What would really be interesting is a library that uses the browser for only the UI, and is otherwise basically language-independent. So like Qt or GTK except let the browser do all the gnarly platform-specific parts.

Then the UI is compiled to javascript, which means it's portable and looks the same on every platform, but you can actually write your program in a less brain-damaged language like Rust or Python (or C or whatever you like).


The Broadway backend for GTK roughly does that. Qt5 apps can also be compiled to wasm now.

https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/gtk-broadway.html

https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly




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