Comment by simonw
Wow, this thing even has its own web browser! https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os/tree/master/wasm_apps/we...
You can see a snippet of it running (and rendering Hacker News) in the demo video.
Wow, this thing even has its own web browser! https://github.com/Askannz/munal-os/tree/master/wasm_apps/we...
You can see a snippet of it running (and rendering Hacker News) in the demo video.
I love this because it shows what we've lost in the push to add JS, CSS, and endless features to web browsers. Certainly we've gained a lot as well, but there's a cost. And that cost is a small browser like this with minimal dependencies can't render much of the web in a useful form.
I think we need a cleaner split between the content web and the app web. The content web should need a minimal HTTP client and HTML parser. Web apps could actually run on something quite similar to this OS here: wasm + some GUI plumbing 5-10 hardware APIs for the most common things. Please just make sure it has UDP.