Web desktops - do you find it interesting?

Question

As a win32 developer moving into web deveopment the last few years, I found the
web desktops based on extjs very interesting.

Coolite Desktop (broken)
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Answer 1

the desktop metaphor in a web browser is neat, but

• the first link was still downloading images after 1 minute so i closed the browser
• the second link came up instantly and looked really good
• for intranet applications this might make sense
• for task-based site with multiple tasks this might make sense
• this isn't that new of a concept - BBS software had this 20+ years ago, and extended it to the web 8-10 years ago; the metaphor was not very popular because that's not how people use the web...yet!