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dlcarriertoday at 7:25 AM1 replyview on HN

That reminds me of Microsoft's Active Desktop in Windows 98, when the desktop had widgets that were web pages and would show webpage-related errors when something went wrong. We've really gone full circle over the last three decades.


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throwaway27448today at 7:28 AM

It's not so much "full circle" as we never came up with a better way to render general purpose rich text content than html/css to begin with

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