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

@freemo @marathon0 return to postscript (NeWS)

@icedquinn

I can't remember the details clearly, but was it NeXt OS that used postscript for the display UI?

@freemo

@marathon0 @freemo no, next used objective-c and was reabsorbed in to apple as cocoa.

@icedquinn
Right, well it might have been BeOS then. Whichever it was, it was silky smooth.

@freemo

@marathon0 @freemo BeOS was very clean C++

@icedquinn
Yeah my memory was correct, it was NeXt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_PostScript

@freemo