Funny thing is, I think this is just about as useful as every attempt I've ever seen (real or Hollywood) to add value to GUI by adding 3D gfx...
A lot of people said it was silly, and I think IIRC the help pages for it used to have cheeky comments like "Why? Because we can." There's probably a good reason it was deprecated, but I thought it was useful for debugging my often deeply nested DOM layers.
https://github.com/chrisprice/explodz
It appears to still work and it even sort-of works on Firefox except for the mouse-click feature that shows the sides. Clearly not as polished as the old Firefox feature though.
It's a pity it's no longer maintained.
KDE has zooming built in nowadays.
the same with wobbly windows. they'd only wobble when moved, which makes the effect practical, as it doesn't get in the way.
i hoped this vim cube would do that too. map different buffers onto the faces, and rotate the cube as you switch buffers, but otherwise stay out of the way to actually let me work
Being a master hacker during that time was fun.
I've been saying this since Jurassic Park came out and the Unix UI was basically 3D. Around that time I had some labmates in the mid 90's that thought GUI logins should be skeumorphs that involved doors, keys, and tunnels. And it got worse from there.
Fast forward from 1993 to 2013 and I met a guy working on a 3D version of ... Atom editor I think? I was a fucking trainwreck to look at, but damn he was putting his all into it.