Devlog 2 — MewoOS

yayyayayay its finally coming together… basic version is done now ive add some more features and apps and just polish the whole ui a bit too should i add an app for doomscrolling 🥀 ?

anyways heres the details of what it has rn :-

-added an iframe browser because the jam said “be creative” and my creativity said “put the entire internet inside a window inside a fake OS inside a browser.” it loads Wikipedia and GitHub reliably. most other sites block iframes so its basically a very expensive Wikipedia viewer. but it works and im counting it as a feature

• also the basic version of music player was alr done but my first thought was “the music player needs REAL music” — not some placeholder beeps, actual songs. so i set up yt-dlp and went on a downloading spree at unholy hours. we got Cruel Angel’s Thesis, YOASOBI’s Idol, Ado’s Usseewa, Night Dancer, Fly Me to the Moon, Feeling Good by Nina Simone, Chopin Ballade No.4 in G minor, Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No.2 (the full 37MB concerto because i have no concept of file size restraint), Paganini Caprice No.24, and some jazz tracks for the cultured folks. HTML5 audio API handles all of it — play, pause, skip, progress bar, the whole thing. no npm packages, no dependencies, just vibes and tags

• the UI went through approximately 47 iterations of “is this too pink” vs “is this dark enough” — settled on a deep black (#0A0709) with sakura pink accents and floating ambient glow orbs that drift around the screen like little ghosts of my questionable design choices. windows have glass panels with backdrop blur, the dock has custom SVG icons (not emojis, im not a monster), and the whole thing radiates “what if a gothic cathedral had a kawaii phase” energy 💔💔