Hello,

I am developing an online operating system and have a set back. Im not sure whether the programs that are launched (ex: text pad, video player, command line, etc.) should be launched within an iframe or built directly into the operating system. If I do the iframe approach, applications can be built on remote servers and then just linked with the url. Installing new application would be a breeze. If I decide to build them in directly into the OS I would have more control probably like drag and drop features along with added security.

What do you guys think?

Using IFrame the interaction between the apps will be very limited, sepecially if they're loaded from different domains.

I'd certainly create it directly into the OS, the main reasons would be control, interaction and extensibility using prototype.

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