This loads super fast on a phone and is very responsive.<p>Modern js done right can provide top tier interfaces. So many frontend let performance go by the way side when making interactive web apps.<p>And performance can also be UX, how things appear and the flow of the loading. Things like placeholder boxes [1] with the same size so the load isn’t janky is one good hack. The sort of thing you don’t have to care about with native apps.<p>[1] I’m on the fence about the value of loading icons in each placeholder, they’ll figure out something is loaded soon enough. Not need for the distraction or highlighting loading times. Errors for components are another matter.<p>Although of course server side rendering of everything is the ideal initial state.
Wow. You can even load a Winamp skin from <a href="https://skins.webamp.org/" rel="nofollow">https://skins.webamp.org/</a> into the player and adjust the EQ.<p>Though, I'm not sure if I trust that OS since I see a tooltip telling me that I don't have AV installed :)
And here's Windows 2000 in a browser:<p><a href="https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&graphic=1&w=1024&h=768" rel="nofollow">https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...</a><p>And Windows 95 in a browser:<p><a href="https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows95" rel="nofollow">https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows95</a><p>And Windows 3.1 in a browser:<p><a href="https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pcjs.org/software/pcx86/sys/windows/3.10/</a>
This is excellent, with the very minor detail of the fonts, which look a little off, and perhaps a little too anti-aliased? This seems to be the main issue with all web-based retro simulations of Windows 9x and XP. I'm guessing this is because the default font (Tahoma?) isn't freely licensed? Everything else is spot on, though!
Run it at full screen and can't back to the browser view. All function keys are captured. Nice.<p>Now add Excel or Word to it. Running it at full screen would be a nice "I'm working hard" wallpaper for the people peeping over your shoulder.
It should already be in this list<p><a href="https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/syxanash/awesome-web-desktops</a><p><a href="https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops" rel="nofollow">https://simone.computer/#/webdesktops</a>
Very pretty... but just about everything I wanted to try out (Control Panel to switch to the Classic interface, the Run command, Command Prompt) just gave generic “program not found” errors, which I understand, but which makes this little more than a tableaux—though indeed it is termed a ‘recreation’ and not an ‘emulation’, so maybe I was just hoping for too much.<p>Well done on the visuals, though. Very impressive.
I stumbled around their github and they have a project that I think is far more fun and interesting that even this great Windows XP clone. A bunch of very real looking fake screens: OS update that won't ever finish, crashed, Google Search that doesn't return any results. Check it out. This would be great for pranking co-workers, you know, if we could work in the same room...<p><a href="https://github.com/ShizukuIchi/fake-screen" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ShizukuIchi/fake-screen</a>
It is astonishing that so little has changed in almost 30 years. Despite visual differences, menus and windowing in general is almost exactly the same.
Now this is fun. The S Pen on my Note 8 works in MS Paint!<p>I guess I shouldn't be surprised - it just treats it like a mouse - but it was neat to see.<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/R8rbdYZ" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/R8rbdYZ</a>
Winamp!! Wow, talk about nostalgia... this is really cool. I just realized thankfully we don't really need to test websites against IE6+ anymore but if we did and the browser worked, this would be really useful! nice work.
Not quite Win2k in the browser [0] but it's a pretty good simulation of Windows. Sounds like this would be a fun project for trying out new frameworks.<p>It's missing one feature that's been in Windows since 1.0: closing an application by clicking the top left (icon) in the task bar.<p>[0]: <a href="https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&graphic=1&w=1024&h=768" rel="nofollow">https://bellard.org/jslinux/vm.html?url=win2k.cfg&mem=192&gr...</a>
This doesn't really seem to work on my OnePlus 3, but if I think about it, what part of this would emphasize React's performance characteristics? Aren't most things on the XP desktop just static images and buttons and so on?<p>That being said, the assets are spot on and visually it seems identical.
Memories. Really was sad to see XP go...<p>Maybe one day Microsoft will release it under the GPL (also would take the Mozilla Public License or the Eclipse Public License).<p>Of course, even if the code was released, getting the theme released is a different matter.
Nice work! I wonder how much effort did it take to get the the correct web layout and css styles?<p>With React it seems like the logic should be simpler to implement (assuming there isn't much change to WinAmp and JSPaint).
I like how unimplemented menu items in your Notepad clone are grayed out as disabled, I would love to see this principle implemented in the rest of this art piece.
this is so cool, I have created a code screenshot tool with windows xp and windows 98 theme on <a href="https://codekeep.io/screenshot" rel="nofollow">https://codekeep.io/screenshot</a>
I love windows xp. always have and still find it eaiser and more intuitive than windows 10. I encourage everyone to donate and support reactOS. It's our only hope for a sane open source OS.
Windows XP is reportedly the last version of Windows where Bill Gates played a key role in its creation and quality control – something he was very good at. In my view he should return to this job and stop listening to the Melinda Gates and Lorraine Jobs of the world encouraging him to work on saving the universe when Windows has been going downhill ever since he left.<p>If Bill were to start with a Windows XP sp3 base, here are a bakers dozen of tasks to get him and his new software team started. I am calling this new product Windows XP-TNG for now. Feel free to add to this list:<p>1. WinXP-TNG should be 64 bit only, at the same level of reliability or better as Win XP 32 bit. Support for disks larger than 2tb and main memory greater than 4gb.<p>2. USB 3 support.<p>3. Investigate if and how this 48 bit address business could be expanded to the full 64 bits.<p>4. DirectX 12 support<p>5. Directory printer option (like the best add-on utilities provide)<p>6. Print to PDF file print driver (better than the best add-on utilities provide)<p>7. Integrate the old Office 2003 into Windows XP-TNG without separate activation. Customers that really want a newer Office would buy a Cloud version or the Windows 10 native app.<p>8. Integrate a “cleaner” utility that would remove any malware from PDF, and, if needed, epub files.<p>9. Deleted file recovery (beyond restore points). Search entire disk and rebuild desired directory entries functionality (much better than the best add-on utilities provide).<p>10. One button setup of “classic” Win 95/2000 options and developer settings like View-Details.<p>11. Fix bug that causes large, say 1tb file transfers, with Copy-Paste to fail. Drag-and-Drop works ok.<p>12. Long-term bug fixing and cybersecurity support.<p>13. Option for automatic registry backups, user can delay and specify number of backups before recycling.