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indeed

look at the screenshots,

this whole thing is for those kool-aid guys who look at it and go "ALRIGHT! COOL"

except

it has no practical use whatsoever

and if you did try it, you would delete it within an hour after you realsed it was a waste of a download

I disagree. First, this is really just a proof of concept. Nobody is going to argue that it was intended to "compete" on a feature-by-feature checklist with current 2D browsers. Second, you have a limited imagination. It could be very useful for kiosk-type applications, advertising, modest games, improved accessibility (ie. for people with handicaps, reduced screen real estate, etc), raster and geometry effects for 2D applications, etc. Particularly when you consider that its real usefulness may come from providing an API set to devs rather than a client app -- and the fact that much of the install base will already have the prerequisite bits on their boxes (ie. minimal additional special runtimes to download/install).

raver31 might have a "limited imagination", yours though is through the roof.
improved accessibility (ie. for people with handicaps, reduced screen real estate, etc)[i]
emmm that would just make things worse.
[i] It could be very useful for kiosk-type applications, advertising we dont need more of that thank you
raster and geometry effects for 2D applications
emm.. also no. different libraries.

so it looks like you are one of them Kool-Aid guys raver31 was talking about

Yeah, we'll get 3d security holes now <g>.

There's a reason why 3d computing has never taken off...monitors are 2d and lend themselves horribly to 3d environments (well, besides gaming of course).

"Sounds about as useful as Dashboard on Mac OS X."

Umm...except Dashboard actually is useful. I actually use it almost daily.

Though I generally agree with you. This doesn't seem like a terribly useful product - at least in the current implementation.

Ad why IE? It is a terrible browser!

Actually, I use Dashboard daily too. But it sounded like a good thing to say at the time.

i dont think discarding such aplications like this as "useless" is hardly apropriate. these are inovative aplications and visualy rather impressive. while there practival aplication my be questionable the fact that it is something new and inovative is good. what if people never tried to do something diferent or new. we would al still be using windows 3.1.1 and have our interfaces like that. now we have the beauty of OSX and Vista and SUN's Looking glass project (needs lots more work but has so much potential). discouraging these developments only shows short sightedness. personaly i think this is great. keep up the good work.

:edit: fixed some typos

Edited 2006-03-03 01:09

i wonder if it realy covers an interface need

I think it does. Using an old, 2D Windows interface never leaves me thinking "Wow, this is so natural I hardly know I'm using it!" More often, I find myself swearing at it. Virtual desktops are a hack to reduce to problems of a design that was never intended (by the folks at Xerox) to be used this way. Even if this sucks, it should be commended just for being an alternative.