• Reported by andyed

The file system is something of a holy grail in software design. The web has taken a different slant on this with it's popular Information Architecture rubric where the approach is generally to expand the organization beyond a simple hierarchy, rather than extend the methods for exploring the hierarchy (with a couple of notable exceptions) .


The Eazel project made the quest high profile in the dot-com glory days, and the file system is one of the more noticable areas of change in WinXP. Neither of these efforts rival the 3DOSX's potential for redefining this interaction. An OpenGL implementation for Max OSX, 3DOSX combines transparency, fore/backgrounding, and a seemingly more usable spinning platter approach than the dock.