I know that this is a popular thing to do, but I don't understand it. Why would you want to put a metaphor that dates from 30 years ago on a modern brower? I find the hyperlinked documents on the web with responsive web pages to be a better experience.
Google is working hard to replace the old Microsoft functionality with gmail and google docs, yet you don't find Google using a desktop metaphor with folders and trash cans. Apps don't spring up from icons into desktop windows, they appear as web pages from web links. On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com>wrote: > > On Sep 30, 2012 10:35 AM, "Dennis Kane" <dkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > My most recent work can be seen here: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NTjmy7PbD0 > > > > I have added functionality to the bottom dock, including a working > Trashcan. > > > > I have still received precisely zero real interest in any of this & I am > really eager to get together with programmers who want to get something > beautiful started! > > I think I speak for most when I say: you've given us nothing to be > interested in, aside from a few YouTube videos and some hints about an API > that, to be honest, looks nothing like a well designed JavaScript API. > > Share some code ;) > > Rick > > > > > My theory is basically that the nature of the front-end experience > crucially determines how much "excitement" the back-end administrators will > have. At the moment, the web is filled with absolutely boring/unresponsive > front-ends. So anyone who wants to work with me will really have a leg up > in terms of offering the kind of user experience that will keep the > back-enders on their toes ("on their toes" == "gamefully employed" ;) > > > > By the way, I am well aware that any business that comes out of this > will not want to offer an exact replica of OS X as their front end. I am > using OS X as the ultimate challenge to see how awesome I can make the end > user experience. Once I can get this prototype working as well as > possible, then I can start to think about how to make it even better than > OS X! > > > > I am all ears in terms of what kinds of services can be offered up > through this kind of interface... > > > > -- > > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "nodejs" group. > > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en