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throw310822today at 7:17 AM3 repliesview on HN

You could set a full-screen, interactive browser page as the backdrop of your desktop. Not sure what communication it was allowed to have with the desktop events, but I always thought it was a clever hack that could have been explored and expanded further.


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Novoselltoday at 8:42 AM

Making even the background run electron, eh?

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sixeyestoday at 9:22 AM

i remember setting a html with a flash file and it did track the cursor accurately for some fun effects. couldn't keep it like that due to resource use but yeah, it was fun!

icons and text would get single-color backdrops though. no transparency back to the html