notanos

Wow - indeed. I see you made something like this already back in 2012. Impressive: https://github.com/Lerc/notanos That is more than 13 years ago when websockets where about to become generally available. Impressive! Don't be discouraged by people that argue what you should or should not do. The world is full with people with their own agenda or that simply have a too narrow view of how their world should operate.

I have so many options. Here's a top three https://c50.fingswotidun.com/ useless but arguably art. https://k8.fingswotidun.com/static/ide/ an ide,assembler,emulation for a fictional 8 bit computer. https://github.com/Lerc/notanos A html/js desktop for Linux that I really should finish sometime. These three projects have a combined user base in single digits. Mostly just me.

Client side was all browser. https://github.com/Lerc/notanos also incomplete. I go back and add things to it from time to time. It's my long term toy project.

Sheer joy is an interesting term. I like making things but I don't think that is my primary motivater for _what_ I make. Most of my free stuff is because I think the things should exist and they are things that shouldn't have to be paid for. Some things are just plain geek fun https://github.com/Lerc/stackie - Makes textures using a very compact stack machine language https://github.com/Lerc/kwak-8 - Emulator for an 8-bit computer that never existed Some things I wanted to have exist https://github.com/Lerc/smallcalc - A compact pop-up calculator for the Cinnamon Desktop https://github.com/Lerc/plops - (old) A lightweight Desktop widget engine that I made when I developing for 256-512mb boxes/ https://github.com/Lerc/whio - A Javascript canvas rendering lib for beginner programmers using Globaly avalilable functions + mediaWiki plugin

For a different (and incomplete) take on a Linux Desktop in the browser permit me to plug my own project that I work on in my spare time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7namj7iy16Y https://github.com/Lerc/notanos This takes the approach of Still having Linux, but instead of transferring an X display to the browser, the browser supplants X. Consequently X apps don't run, but HTML/JS apps are really easy to make. Connections are still made in a manner similar to X. A socket is available on the Unix side which apps can connect to, which tunnels through an open websocket connection.

There's a somewhat dated version (pre-Monaco) at https://github.com/Lerc/notanos Things are a bit broken right now(like file requesters don't return the file selected) I work on it sporadically. Now that native promises are a thing I want to go through and tidy up some of the callback structure. The App API should ideally be all promise based. It's an intimidating task though. Next big update I'll probably get it to a point where I ask assistance.

One of my on-again-off-again projects is this something like this. https://github.com/Lerc/notanos There's a quick runthough in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7namj7iy16Y

I had a play around in this area a few years ago. I had a tiny index.html that had just this script in the body. var s=localStorage["bootstrap"]; if (s) {eval(s);} else { var t="But you are not carrying the axe!<br>"; t+='<a href="loadup.html">Get the Axe</a>'; document.body.innerHTML=t; } http://fingswotidun.com/notanos/ Ultimately I found that I needed a server side because of URLs and the same-origin policy. There were just some things that browsers expected to fetch from a URL rather than have the data arrive by other means. For a time I used a WebDav server to be a dumb server. Eventually the system evolved into https://github.com/Lerc/notanos Which uses it's own custom server https://github.com/Lerc/userserv which uses your unix login and statically serves files that your logged-in user is allowed to see.

HTML/JS/CSS desktop environment. https://github.com/Lerc/notanos Posted a Show HN a couple of weeks ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5932209 Currently in thinking mode about how to structure the client frame APIs.