Similar concepts from Microsoft (browser wars era):
Microsoft integrated Trident (Internet Explorer HTML engine) to Win95 with the ActiveDesktop refresh (part of IE4 installation) and shipped with Win98 by default. The desktop background wallpaper was a large HTML page, there were DHTML widgets, the Explorer sidebar was HTML. In Windows 2000 and ME you could even preview Videos in the HTML based sidebar. WinXP's sidebar is HTML based too, also the slow applications window where you can uninstall applications, as well as the control panel. Even in Win7 and more modern versions the UI render code for the control panel, some new popup dialogs, and some Office UI and Windows Media Player is based on a forked render code that happened in the XP era. The EU even mandated that Microsoft has to release the API to the public, so that other developers could create such beautiful Windows applications based on that UI code.
Use your favorite PE resource explorer (e.g. reshacker) to verify it. The DHTML source is in various shell related dlls in the Windows directory.
Microsoft integrated Trident (Internet Explorer HTML engine) to Win95 with the ActiveDesktop refresh (part of IE4 installation) and shipped with Win98 by default. The desktop background wallpaper was a large HTML page, there were DHTML widgets, the Explorer sidebar was HTML. In Windows 2000 and ME you could even preview Videos in the HTML based sidebar. WinXP's sidebar is HTML based too, also the slow applications window where you can uninstall applications, as well as the control panel. Even in Win7 and more modern versions the UI render code for the control panel, some new popup dialogs, and some Office UI and Windows Media Player is based on a forked render code that happened in the XP era. The EU even mandated that Microsoft has to release the API to the public, so that other developers could create such beautiful Windows applications based on that UI code.
Use your favorite PE resource explorer (e.g. reshacker) to verify it. The DHTML source is in various shell related dlls in the Windows directory.