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		zozbot234 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interface... You could single-click to open files in Windows 98 already. You could also hover your mouse pointer on a file icon and it would become selected.

trinix912 6 months ago [–]

It was the Internet Explorer shell integration that brought us this feature. The idea was to blend the desktop and web user interfaces. If you installed IE4 on Windows 95, you'd get that option there too.

kapitar 6 months ago | [–]

Yes, it was called Active Desktop if memory serves.

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