HTML Desktop

Ok, I searched for this in both Google and on Hard to no avail. In the 'Post Your Desktops' thread there are a few people taking full advantage of the HTML Wallpaper feature in Windows. I like that nice clean setup and would like to duplicate it. Short of using Frontpage to author my own, which I really am too lazy to do, is there a source for the layout everyone seems to be using? I'd prefer to just get a known good setup and tweak it as I see fit.

Thanks - Matt

What do you want on it?

I've not seen many active desktops recently, I think most people use stuff like samurize or konfabulator.

The one I got was based off of http://trappleton.com/tsdesk/. Mine is modified off of another that was posted in the thread. I got your pm and just haven't got the time to clean it up and host it for you. You might want to download that version and start hacking away. I will still try to work on hosting mine for you.

Anotehr good resource is Twisted Plastic.

I have been using an HTML desktop extensively for a while now. My experience has been decent, but limiting. I started with the same original source as KevinO.

HTML simply can't support alpha transparencies as well a lot of other "eye candy" features that I want to do with my desktop. I also wanted to create animations by using a single image and negative image borders (like how most desktop plugins do animations with a single stock image), but wasn't able to get that to work in HTML either.

I would like to hear of any other ways that people are creating their active desktops (ie. without using HTML).

I'm also investigating the viability of PHP+Activedesktop instead of Jscript (assuming that I'm able to get PHP enabled on my PC).

Awesome, I appreciate all the links. I'll take a look at each one and see what the situation is. I'm not going for too much eye candy, per sae, just a really clean and icon-less desktop.

I had previously found TSDesk but didn't realize that was the one people were using. Looks like this is ultimately going to be more work than I expected, but should be worth the end result.