Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono

21. Jun 2007

Take a second to enjoy this image. It's actually an Ajax Window running inside Opera the WebBrowser which is installed on a Linux box which also is hosting the Mono ASP.NET WebServer environment. And the Ajax Window uses Windows Vista Skin. Did someone say "Hasta La Vista"? ;)

Windows Vista skin on Linux through Opera browser

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Tags: asp.net programming gaia philosophy mono web open source ajax
Comments
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 22. Jun 2007 by anonymous
let see you make it blur and transparent. then it will be like vista.
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 22. Jun 2007 by anonymous
I'm confused. Is a web app with some cool transparent effects supposed to threaten an Operating System?
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 22. Jun 2007 by thomas
I am going to resist the temptation of answering that on with anything else then; "Of course..." ;)

To the first comment, it IS blur and it IS transparent, do you see the starts behind it...?

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RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 22. Jun 2007 by thomas
Btw, you'll see it in our Vista Sample Ajax Window Skin page...
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 23. Jun 2007 by anonymous
nice but I only see transparency, no blur
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 23. Jun 2007 by thomas
That's true in fact, there is no blur... ;)
But anyway, it's inside a browser running on Linux, the server hosting the web application is also running on Linux (same machine in fact) and it looks enough similar to Windows Vista to be able to be named "Vista Skin" without a lot of embarrassment. I think it's pretty hilarious if you ask me... ;)

.t
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 25. Jun 2007 by anonymous
@thomas
What I find hilarious, is the BIG difference between a webpage interface and a OS interface that you don't seem to find... :D
RE: Windows Vista Skin on Opera running on Linux and Mono
Posted 25. Jun 2007 by thomas
Errhh...??
What's that "BIG" difference...?
Blur...??
That's about the ONLY difference there IS in fact...
If you don't count for how much more easy it is to develop using a Gaia Window than it is to develop using a System.Windows.Forms.Form object... ;)

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