{"id":74,"date":"2009-06-21T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/a-graphical-shell-for-the-web\/"},"modified":"2009-06-21T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T21:08:00","slug":"a_graphical_shell_for_the_web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/a_graphical_shell_for_the_web\/","title":{"rendered":"A Graphical Shell for the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content\">\n<p>I&#39;d like to ask for feedback on a draft of a design concept I&#39;ve been working on since 2006. The idea is &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/View?id=dd4z8wsd_393dd5v2mdg\">a graphical shell for the web<\/a>&quot; and it is intended to act as a replacement for a desktop environment for devices dedicated to accessing the web. Target hardware platforms might include netbook and nettop computers, mobile internet devices, set top boxes and internet kiosks. <\/p>\n<p>I would appreciate comments either here on <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\">my blog<\/a>, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/krellian-webtop\">krellian-webtop mailing list<\/a> or by <a href=\"http:\/\/tola.me.uk\/contact\">contacting me personally<\/a> if you prefer.<\/p>\n<p>Work towards implementing this design concept has already started at <a href=\"http:\/\/krellian.org\/\">krellian.org<\/a>. In addition I am thinking of creating an interactive mockup of the user interface using SVG because, as Jef Raskin eloquently put, existing UI building tools &quot;enshrine current paradigms and thus unduly limit the scope of what you can do&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Please let me know what you think. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;d like to ask for feedback on a draft of a design concept I&#39;ve been working on since 2006. The idea is &quot;a graphical shell for the web&quot; and it is intended to act as a replacement for a desktop environment for devices dedicated to accessing the web. Target hardware platforms might include netbook and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/2009\/06\/21\/a_graphical_shell_for_the_web\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Graphical Shell for the Web<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tola.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}