Chrome OS Competitor from Mozilla Labs

Based off of Mozilla Labs’ Chromeless platform, a British programmer named Ben Franics has come up with a prototype for a web-shell much like Google’s Chrome OS called “Webian:”

If you’re anything like me then you’ll find that most of the stuff you do on your PC these days happens in a web browser, and the desktop environment you used to depend on is now just getting in your way. Modern web applications can do just about everything traditional desktop applications can do (like flashy graphics, sound, video and offline storage) so often all you really need is the browser. The idea of the Webian Shell project is to replace your computer’s interface with something much simpler, which treats web applications as first class citizens and does away with all the un-necessary clutter.

The platform is meant to be, and will remain, completely open source, as opposed to Chrome OS’s locked-down-ness. It runs off of regular web standards like CSS, JavaScript, and HTML. Interested yet? Download the prototype shell from Webian’s website.