On 14 Jul 2006 at 12:20, Rick Cogan wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bernie Cosell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, July 14, 2006 11:38 > > > > On 14 Jul 2006 at 10:50, Carl Houseman wrote: > > > >> Active Desktop allows display of web content on the desktop. You can > >> setup > >> such displays from Display Settings / Desktop / Customize Desktop / Web > >> tab. > > > > Cool -- there it is. Now I'm curious: why would you want to display a > > web page on your desktop? [Instead of displaying it in your browser]. I > > suppose I can play with it to see what it might be good for..:o) > > It's not that you're displaying a web page on your desktop, your desktop is > a web page! In other words you can have an html page for your background on > the desktop and desktop icons are like web links.
I'm still not quite seeing the utility of that. Desktop icons can *already* be web links. Hmm... I suppose that could give me more control over my desktop [I assume here that I'd make a *local* .html file to use as my desktop and then I could include frames, tables, images from other sites, etc, as I saw fit]. Assuming it did JavaScript, I guess I could have a desktop slide show [by just loading images on a JS timer], etc. Is that kind of the idea: that you can do a "fancier" and more highly customized desktop than just "tiling" or "stretching" a background? /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
