After 10 years ReactOS website has got new design

This is the previous design from 10 years ago:

https://web.archive.org/web/20060421204854/http://www.reacto...

It certainly looks dated, but compared to the new design there are a few good things about it:

- High information density

- Screenshot at the top

- Link to legal review and licenses (questions that any enterprise customer would have)

- No gratuitous animation sequences

I wonder if it would have been possible to update the ReactOS site's design while retaining its informational quality. Just improving the typography and working on the padding between boxes could have made a real difference.

More generally, I wish the tide of web design trends would turn towards information density once again. Edward Tufte, a legend in the field and proponent of visual density, famously called PowerPoint presentations "chart junk" because they spend slide after slide on charts with minimal information in each.

Modern websites willingly do the same, forcing the user to scroll through a dozen screenfuls just to glean some basic information about a product. Animation makes this even worse, because the user has to sit and wait while the site slowly delivers information in animated word-sized chunks.

Since the beginning I had a dream of doing IE compatibility tests with ReactOS but other options showed up and IE lost its relevance in relevant parts of the Internet.

It is a shame they decided to override the default scroll behaviour.

> providing a ground-up implementation of a Microsoft Windows® XP compatible operating system.

I actually couldn't find that in the new website. I wondered what they're targeting, and I couldn't find it.

Why do they override the scroll behaviour?..