In my opinion, there *still* aren't any "web apps" around, hahaha :)  When 
I think about an "app", it's gotta look and feel just like a desktop thing. 
 Yeah, my project is real small right now, but I'm about to put something 
up that's pretty mindblowing.  It's a kind of realtime, distributed 
community programming thing.  I want it to be a combination of 
stackoverflow + github  on steroids.  You'll be able to dynamically update 
the Javascript that runs the site.  Working code can now be deployed from 
my local console text editor to the remote clients in a small fraction of a 
second.  It's all pretty hairy at the moment, but I should be able to 
smooth things out real nice in the next few days.  I'm really investigating 
the possibility of an entirely new paradigm of programming...  I must just 
go nuts in the process, though :P!!

On Monday, September 10, 2012 4:47:43 AM UTC-4, Daniel Sousa wrote:
>
> eyeOS used to be great on the 1.x versions, but in 2009 the eyOS Team 
> abandoned the 1.x series and started developing eyeOS 2.0 almost secretly 
> and since then eyeOS has been more a commercial software than an open 
> source project. Currently their website doesn't even mention there's an 
> open source project.
>
> Lucid 2.0 was supposed to be developed on node.js, but there was basically 
> just one person around it and he hasn't worked on it for a long time.
>
> These desktops were a great idea 5 years ago when there weren't any web 
> apps and the word "cloud" wasn't even used, now these small projects would 
> have a hard time competing with Google Docs et al.
>
> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Dennis Kane <[email protected]<javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Well, the necessary technology didn't really exist years ago.  I rely 
>> very heavily on node/socket.io/websockets for the server side and 
>> Chrome's constantly developing API in the client.  Trying to implement my 
>> current site with older JS engines and HTTP servers along with AJAX would 
>> be next to impossible.  So I'm pretty excited about what I'm doing... the 
>> GUI is pretty intuitive and the websocket connection is lightening quick!
>>
>>
>> On Friday, September 7, 2012 9:35:53 AM UTC-4, Karl Tiedt wrote:
>>>
>>> Yeah, Lucid started years ago now, and it was very active, not sure 
>>> what happened with it, but it was pretty amazing at what it did for 
>>> its time.. If nothing else, it may be good for some ideas, I didnt 
>>> realize it has fell by the wayside :/ 
>>>
>>> -Karl Tiedt 
>>>
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