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pazimzadeh on June 2, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Previewing Windows 8 (Video)

It reminds me of Dashboard on Mac OS X, which is composed of HTML and CSS widgets.

josephcooney on June 2, 2011 [–]

Vista and Windows 7 had sidebar widgets that were/are also HTML + CSS. Before that (Win XP) you could put arbitrary HTML widgets anywhere on the desktop using activedesktop.

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