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Fun fact: The colorful Windows 98 explorer sidebar that is shown in the first screenshot was implemented as HTML (and Javascript), along with the desktop backgr
by quonn 9y ago
Fun fact: The colorful Windows 98 explorer sidebar that is shown in the first screenshot was implemented as HTML (and Javascript), along with the desktop background (called active desktop).
- fredsted 9y agoActually the folders themselves were too. You could edit the actual CSS and HTML behind them – changing the colors, putting in backgrounds – by placing specially named files in the directory. Windows 98 was a glorious thing.
- bandrami 9y agoYup. I once got paid an absurd amount of money to "customize Windows 98" meaning, write a couple of lines of HTML and Javascript.
- alanh 9y agoIndeed. I once built an “Active Desktop” web app — if you will — for my mom as a holiday gift. It just rotated through some pics of the family as wallpaper.
- davesque 9y agoI remember when the services supporting that UI would crash and you'd just get a generic, blank webpage with one link as a desktop. Those were fun times. And boy...Outlook back then would do some wacky stuff. I seem to recall you could trick it into executing javascript in a system context which was hidden in png attachments or something to that effect.