Stephen Downes

Some interesting thoughts here. The first is the link to Awesome Web Desktops, "the web's biggest curated directory of apps, portfolios and experiments that mimic the appearance and functionality of desktop operating systems." But also, the consideration raised by Jeff Atwood back in 2008, "When you build a 'desktop in the web browser'-style application, you're violating users' unwritten expectations of how a web application should look and behave." Is that true? Well, maybe. The challenge it poses to designers of web applications, though, is how should they operate if they're not going to operate like a desktop? Finally: Daedalos. "The Github README has a massive list of what it supports, including x86 and game emulators, Wasm package management, mapping local directories with Chrome's file support, IPFS support, messaging over Nostr, and much much more."