Tag: XIN

At this point web-based "operating systems" have to fight seemingly insurmountable odds to really work well. There are limits in the codebase (choosing JavaScript versus Flash, or a combo of both, results in a few compromises). There are limits within the browser itself (can't save if the window gets closed, or if the connection goes south). But that's not stopping people from trying. Webby's ...

Over at ZDNet's Web 2.0 Explorer Richard MacManus rounds up all of the current WebOS offerings. A WebOS, of course, is "a software platform that interacts with the user through a web browser and does not depend on any particular local operating system," and MacManus counts six of them out in the wild, not including the fabled GoogleOS, and in the pull-quote says, "It wouldn't ...