Comment Comment by singingbard If only people knew how much of Microsoft Windows has been secretly powered by HTML pages for 20 years…In Windows 95, Microsoft let you set a HTML file as your wallpaper and let you set up “channels” that were web-based widgets. This was the beginning.Windows 98 used webpages as core components for Explorer. Literally browsing your files involved J(ava)Script… in 1998.Windows XP/2000 still had Internet Explorer as a core component. Web tech was involved every time you opened a folder.Windows Shell using web tech is as on-brand Microsoft as it gets. parent singingbard 9 months ago
In Windows 95, Microsoft let you set a HTML file as your wallpaper and let you set up “channels” that were web-based widgets. This was the beginning.
Windows 98 used webpages as core components for Explorer. Literally browsing your files involved J(ava)Script… in 1998.
Windows XP/2000 still had Internet Explorer as a core component. Web tech was involved every time you opened a folder.
Windows Shell using web tech is as on-brand Microsoft as it gets.