Windows 95 should have been released in 93, but was full of bugs. It was then renamed 95, with an expected publish date at the end of 94. Good thing to name a product with year+1: Gives a futuristic taste if published early and a bit of leeway otherwise ;)
I believe it's not an exact replica. To my knowledge, the splash screen's progress bar was introduced with Windows XP [1]. Also were windows flipping like that before opening?
As far as I can figure out, on chrome it's just a web service -- and doesn't work on Debian Chromium as they stopped shipping google api keys (which makes sense, part of the point of using chromium over chrome is to have some measure of independence from google).
Just thought I'd mention it here, in case anyone else were about to run off and try stuff like:
Yeah, Chrome implements it as a web service, but Google and Apple have been slowly working on a Web Speech API for a while (I suppose Mozilla and Microsoft see it as an unnecessary abstraction when the Web Audio API could do speech-related stuff).
I think Safari has only implemented the Synthesis part of the API because it can all be done offline and rely on the system voices on OS X and iOS. Google uses their own web APIs and thus also does Speech Recognition, but it doesn't work well offline or when you don't have Google API keys within Chromium/Chrome.
Funny and, for a gag, surprisingly thorough and complete.
Could you please allow closing windows by doubleclicking on the top-left(!) corner of a window? I kinda need that (e.g. this still works for the file explorer on Windows 7, even though there is no icon).
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I believe it's not an exact replica. To my knowledge, the splash screen's progress bar was introduced with Windows XP [1]. Also were windows flipping like that before opening?
[1] Here's Windows 95 splash screen. Aw, the graphics... https://www.google.fr/search?q=windows+95+splash+screen&clie...
https://xbenjii.co.uk/i/jcu1Z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCI_TL69rIE
Just thought I'd mention it here, in case anyone else were about to run off and try stuff like:
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2014/01/Web-apps-that-talk---I...
only to be disappointed :-/
Note that on Debian/Ubuntu you can for example do:
if you need to get your computer voice fix.I think Safari has only implemented the Synthesis part of the API because it can all be done offline and rely on the system voices on OS X and iOS. Google uses their own web APIs and thus also does Speech Recognition, but it doesn't work well offline or when you don't have Google API keys within Chromium/Chrome.
2. That worked scarily well on my 3.5" Android phone (chrome).
Massive shout out to the people who made this.
Could you please allow closing windows by doubleclicking on the top-left(!) corner of a window? I kinda need that (e.g. this still works for the file explorer on Windows 7, even though there is no icon).