httpWM
It’s done. It works. A fully functional fluxbox-like window manager and desktop environment inside a browser window. A lot of people have contributed to this project and I’m proud to release it to the public for the first time.
You might ask yourself what’s all the fuss about. Well, this is something a lot of people have tried to do and a lot of companies are working on. This is the future of web interfacing. httpWM is just a simple framework and actually just a POC (proof of concept).
This new website is built using AJAX, DHTML and a lot of CSS. It’s code is GPL so if you want you can use it. Before people start to complain it’s not W3C valid, I’ll explain. I had to use innerHTML to keep it a bit useable. The W3C DOM approach would give me huge JavaScripts and high bandwidth usage. The use of innerHTML speeds things up, too. A lot.
So grab your Firefox by it’s ears and point it’s nose to JRRZZ.net where httpWM is running.
Update:
It’s running on the Interlink web server now after ‘high’ loads on my personal server.
Its VERY nice. All of the people I show this too are very impressed.
I advice you to put a firefox referral on httpWM. Or on a contact site or something. I don’t know, you know why I advice you to do that.
And maybe you should host that on a professional server as I expect very much bandwidth when *someone* diggs this.
Greets,
Bjorn.
There’s an ad for Firefox right in there, but supported by Mozilla. I’m currently in a discussion with Google whether they want to deliver static content so I can use it in httpWM. It’s technically impossible to put a standard Google firefox ad in there because after-onload JavaScript doesn’t get read by the browser if it’s not in-tag. Google ads use document.write() (or something equivalent) to put an iFrame on your page where the ads are loaded.
If someone ‘diggs’ it I’ll put it on Interlink’s webserver.
I know that it isnt possible. But what you could do, is make another page outside of httpWM ( or just open it with the browser :P ), where the add is on.
Just my 234234 cents.