Hipe is a graphics layer and window system for Linux based on Webkit, using nested HTML tags which applications manipulate directly to create a GUI.
It aims to provide functionality equivalent to existing systems like X (on Unix-like systems) or Quartz (on Apple OS-X), but using HTML with CSS as the display language. (For comparison, Apple's Quartz uses PDF encoding.)
Unlike a web browser, Hipe does not use HTTP. Instead, applications use a public-domain API to connect to the Hipe...