Monday, December 11th, 2006
Craythur Web OS
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It may look nicer than Vista? :)
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wow — that’s fast. usually most javascript window systems I’ve seen slow things down a bit.
broken in ff2
Not bad, It’s quite well done, I’ve always thought about making something of my own such as that…now that I see a market is starting for it, maybe i should?
What’s the point?
Hmmm. It looks promising, but I get errors for pngfix.js looking to apply attachEvent in Firefox 1.5, in addition to prototye errors right off the bat.
It does say beta though :-)
I couldn’t create an account, it gave a php error. I did log in using the demo account, and it looks cool. I would have to spend more time on it to see if actually offers any usefulness, but at a cursory glance it didn’t seem like it. It’ll be cool to see where this goes.
It’s beautiful, but what’s the use of it ?
Wow – It doesn’t do anything at all! I just tried this site with IE6 & 7 & Firefox. After the demo login it umm… just sits there. Is this suppose to do something??? I mean besides the multiple errors all the browsers tell me about?
Interesting App, there’s soo many of these out there anymore. I don’t see a whole lot that sets this one apart from any others right now. This one seems a bit clunky, none of the editing is done inline, the windows don’t tend to open up to the correct size so you have to manually resize them, and the mouse over detail windows seem to get in a way a bit (mostly the contacts page). Still it is very responsive, and looks like a good start.
doesn’t work in safari
To Vista’s credit, it doesn’t “crash” with “style is null or not an object” errors on login. ;) (IE 7)
The desktop OS “meme” is interesting as it was in 1999/2000 and there are some neat JS experiments being done (and credit to this one where due), but it’s going to take more than drag and drop to make something compelling enough to stick.
I thought Irish (Gaelic) for whiskey was uisge bheatha (water of life)
Working very slowly here, I guess not prepared for the load… also in FF2
window.attachEvent is not a function
window.attachEvent("onload", correctPNG);
Not only useless, it’s a very poor use of Prototype and Scriptaculous, libraries that originated on the Mac platform and were designed to be cross-platform and cross-browser. Typical Windows-developer arrogance.
The slowest ajax piece i’ve ever seen, and the dumbest idea that’s ever around.
The site doesn’t even work with demo/demo, and it has a line saying “we recomment ff and ie7, ie6 could prevent interface loading” or some crap like that.
What’s the point? Spending all these time in a OS that is hosted within a browser which sadly is HOSTED ON AN OS?
Another perfect example of failure of TECHNICAL vs PRACTICAL
This is impressive from a technical standpoint, but I agree with some of the other commenters in asking, “What is the point?”. There will always be a need for native desktop operating systems, so I can’t see a “web-based” operating system becoming a replacement for that anytime soon. It’s like creating a web-browser within a web-browser, just a tad superflous. It goes without saying that this “OS” is completely dependent upon the underlying “True OS’s” memory and window management system. It would do nothing by itself.
I think that the merging of web and desktop will come to fruition in a more peicemeal fashion, for example — desktop widgets, remote file system storage, and key web applications (think basecamp, writely, flickr) to supplement the native OS’s strengths (think gaming, file management, process intensive software).
Nice interface. As for usefulness, M$ & SUN have tried for years to create a roaming desktop solution that works for businesses with little success or adoption. A web OS or Desktop is the perfect platform to enable this. The biggest blocker to widespread adoption is the availability of applications to run in the OS (this is the case with any OS) – but this is already being solved by everyone building web applications.
Oh yeah I’m SO putting ‘my banking’ in there.
j/k. It looks nice. very slick!