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democracyindanger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 12:40 AM
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WinXP: Ever set a web page as your desktop?
Has anybody done this? Experiences?
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 02:31 AM
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1. Yes, loooong ago
when MS introduced Active Desktop with IE4. It was a crash-prone horrorshow and after I found out how to disable it, I never went back. I'm sure it's stable nowadays, but I still won't use it. Having a desktop webpage means having a live instance of IE open to the web, and I keep IE blocked, raising it only to test webpages.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-13-06 08:15 AM
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2. Just about the same here - supposed to be like Pointcast...
Quite frankly - I just didn't see the point of tieing up my resources for it as well.

Pointcast was 'hot' for a while:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PointCast_%28dotcom%29

Pointcast "pushed" its technology, which meant that info was updated, but many news websites refresh themselves automatically, etc.

The point is why not just open up a web browser window on the given webpage and press F11 to maximize? Same effect.
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