An unexpected revival of Firefox OS
The dream of an HTML-based operating system is nothing new, and in fact, something we have seen since the early 2000s. With the Internet exploding in popularity and complexity, it has always been tempting to think of browsers as convenient graphical renderers, and CSS as the ultimate markup language for
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@marathon0 I worked on one of the very first html based OS ever to exist commercially in 1998/1999, it was called WebOS. In fact even today I still work with its owner on new unrelated projects.
@freemo I've used it on an old HP pad. Cool shit! I haven't tried Firefox OS, would like to though.
@marathon0 It was a gun project
@marathon0 It used to be.. but it has long been dead now. This project was 23 years ago