EyeOS: your own cloud desktop

Re:EyeOS: your own cloud desktop by yangyang on Friday July 31, 2009 @01:29PM (#734884)

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?

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Re:EyeOS: your own cloud desktop by figital on Friday July 31, 2009 @04:01PM (#735237)

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).

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Re:EyeOS: your own cloud desktop by shawnjgoff on Friday July 31, 2009 @03:34PM (#735176)

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

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