<story><title>A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_diyu</author><text>Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn&amp;#x27;t. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make sense, I would 100% go for it. Skinning should make a come-back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>greymeister</author><text>I always used skins in Winamp&amp;#x2F;XMMS, but I&amp;#x27;m immediately filled with nostalgia upon seeing the default skin.  I wonder if people who came to use computers in the last decade will experience the sort of enjoyment I got out of customizing the look and feel of applications.  All of the walled gardens have intertwined design with functionality to the point where skinning doesn&amp;#x27;t really exist in the same way.  I haven&amp;#x27;t used Windows 10, but I wonder if it&amp;#x27;s possible to replace the Windows shell like I used to in college.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Reimplementation of Winamp 2.9 in HTML5 and JavaScript</title><url>https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_diyu</author><text>Wow, it even has skin support! I spent way too many hours developing skins for WinAmp and Trillian back in the late 90s as a teenager. I get why skins fell out of style, but I also kinda wish they didn&amp;#x27;t. Choosing a skin lets you personalize an app, creating a skin does so even more while also letting you express your creativity, and having skins creates a community. If I ever make an app where skinning would make sense, I would 100% go for it. Skinning should make a come-back.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>weavie</author><text>Absolutely. I don&amp;#x27;t get why skins fell out of style. I remember back in the day when I was working on an accounting app, even that I made skinnable. You may just be reconciling your bank account, but at least you could do it in a form that looked like it was made from marble, or wood, or whatever you wanted! It just made everything feel just a little bit less tedious... at least to me</text></comment>