[Discontinued] auroraOS - An OS in your browser

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I might rewrite this and make it windows-10-themed

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Hereā€™s some apps you should app(just iframe them I guess)


Really cool app with EPIC VISUALIZATION(shoot just found out visualization is a seperate plugin)
A minesweeper game
Also an app for glitch
If you guys can get a coder-server instance running (they use more disk space than glitch can provide) you can make vscode an application.
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Yeah iā€™m rewriting the app to show something else like a dialog that locks up the apps until they press a button. I might try when 5.0 comes out

That file we need as a placeholder

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I remixed the project @hhr3, and I saw that you were using iframes for windows. (app windows, not the os) I am now going to make a browser app using iframes!

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I already tried; back when I first started making auroraOS, a browser app was the first thing I set out to do.
iframes have restrictions on them that prevent certain domains, like Google, to be shown in the iframe (to prevent scamming).
I would still love to see what you make!

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Thatā€™s true (Iā€™ve learned it as well before your post) Apps like that have some kind of restriction. I realized this when I made a web proxy that uses IFrames (some websites work however though.)

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There are several options to bypass the iframe restriction. If you have a browser that has extensions you can modify the header. There is also a solution that involves custom elements, however it is broken currently.


The custom element doesnā€™t work I think because the proxy servers are down. We can host a proxy server on the same machine as the os and have the iframe connect to that.
Just make an instance of cors-anywhere but remove the origin header restriction because it says
"
To prevent the use of the proxy for casual browsing, the API requires either the Origin
or the X-Requested-With header to be set. To avoid unnecessary preflight (OPTIONS) requests,
itā€™s recommended to not manually set these headers in your code.
"
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Iā€™ve tried to make the app, Aura Browser, but failed. The os does not seem to load.

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Wow this is so cool. Sadly canā€™t access the filesystem RN and the marketplace doensā€™t work. Iā€™ll keep watching this though

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Iā€™ve noticed that if the app name contains capitals and spaces, the os will crash

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And @code-alt some handy tips i used when i tried to make a browser:

  1. Try to find an alternative to an iframe, when i tested this beside an object function- i saw the object loaded a lot faster.

  2. No spaces or caps- try auorabrowser or auorabrowse or ā€˜internetā€™

  3. Get an Internet browser PNG and convert to .webp, upload it as an asset then open the terminal and cd into your app source (_SERVER/packages/whateveryourappiscalled).

If you havenā€™t already- delete the existing icon and run:

wget -O icon.webp ASSETURL

Reopen your OS and you should see your app with an icon!

EDIT- I am going to try and recreate the lost windows version - windows longhorn

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Webp is preferred but not required. You can use PNG, JPG, or even GIFs instead.

The OS doesnā€™t shouldnā€™t crash when app names have spaces or caps, it only crashes if your appā€™s folder name is different from the app name in your app/info.json.

For example, if your app/packageā€™s name is Aurora Browser, then the folder must be named Aurora Browser, and name in your appā€™s info.json file must also be Aurora Browser.

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i didnā€™t know that!

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@hhr3 when can we see the market fixed?

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Most likely when 5.0 comes out.

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okay, so how would the market work?

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Like any market/app store.
Open it, search for an app, and install it.

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but how? how would we get the files?

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what do you mean?
The market would handle all installing and retrieval of files, you just have to restart the OS and its installed.

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okay, good to know!

starts making windows longhornā€¦

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