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Looks really interesting! Video wallpapers were actually a feature in Windows past [0]. I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallp

Looks really interesting! Video wallpapers were actually a feature in Windows past [0]. I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallpaper too which I enjoyed playing with, so I'll definitely give this a go Just a heads up, a handful of your Read More links on the homepage are broken [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_DreamScene?useskin=vector https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_DreamScene?useskin=vec...

creshal 2y ago
> I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallpaper too Active Desktop was originally introduced for Windows 95: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop
giancarlostoro 2y ago
I remember in KDE (3? 3.5?) you could embed HTML as your wallpaper. That was interesting.
- hnlmorg 2y ago
  That feature goes back way longer. Internet Explorer 4 (Windows) with Active Desktop was the first time I’ve encountered HTML as a wallpaper. The performance was terrible on most computers of that time but you have to bear in mind we were talking about a few hundred megs of RAM being “high end”.
  - giancarlostoro 2y ago
    Interesting, I wasn't trying to claim KDE's was older, just making an aside, that I thought it was interesting, I forgot Windows did the same too. I still remember during the XP era where I thought 40GB was revolutionary after suffering a Millenium Me 500MB hdd computer...
    - hnlmorg 2y ago
      It’s funny how it doesn’t matter how much resources you have, there’s always a way to fill it.
memco 2y ago
I don’t remember if Mac had HTML but I used to set one of the quartz screensavers as my desktop back in the day. I can’t find links to how to do it right now so can’t test if it still works. It could only be set using a command line so it wasn’t exactly mainstream. I found “Flurry” to have decently low battery and CPU usage but many would chew through one or the other quickly.

creshal 2y ago

> I remember some feature in XP which let you show an HTML page as a wallpaper too Active Desktop was originally introduced for Windows 95: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

giancarlostoro 2y ago

I remember in KDE (3? 3.5?) you could embed HTML as your wallpaper. That was interesting.

hnlmorg 2y ago
That feature goes back way longer. Internet Explorer 4 (Windows) with Active Desktop was the first time I’ve encountered HTML as a wallpaper. The performance was terrible on most computers of that time but you have to bear in mind we were talking about a few hundred megs of RAM being “high end”.
- giancarlostoro 2y ago
  Interesting, I wasn't trying to claim KDE's was older, just making an aside, that I thought it was interesting, I forgot Windows did the same too. I still remember during the XP era where I thought 40GB was revolutionary after suffering a Millenium Me 500MB hdd computer...
  - hnlmorg 2y ago
    It’s funny how it doesn’t matter how much resources you have, there’s always a way to fill it.

memco 2y ago

I don’t remember if Mac had HTML but I used to set one of the quartz screensavers as my desktop back in the day. I can’t find links to how to do it right now so can’t test if it still works. It could only be set using a command line so it wasn’t exactly mainstream. I found “Flurry” to have decently low battery and CPU usage but many would chew through one or the other quickly.