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I just wanted to let the author know that at least one other person appreciates this though tbh most of the time for me it's Sohla.
98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
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Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#12I think this would be a great reference for teaching introductory UI design; with the 3D-ness you can clearly see the different states that each UI element requires.
I also really like the quotes about each component! Is there an online copy of this Microsoft Windows User Experience manual somewhere?
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#13This is great, I would love to be able to use this. Win98 always felt like a highpoint in easy to UI design. I am not a CSS ninja, how easy would it be to make this responsive? The example do not appear to be responsive.
I somehow enjoyed the ride to css3 and full fledged responsive multi layer dom presentations but I do miss the wintel days GUI concept. Something about the simplicity, clarity.. makes it more to the point than the hyper capable yet systems of today.
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#14Oh yes. I can't wait to think of a product to build using this design system.
I think it would be hilarious to use this in a desktop Electron app and come full circle.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#15Oh yes. I can't wait to think of a product to build using this design system.
I’ve got one, build the windows desktop with an IE link, basically a div with an iframe, and a text box.
I wonder how many windows apps we can build out in a few lines of JS.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#16Certainly evokes a lot of nostalgia. The tactile feel of 3D buttons can be mesmerizing at times, a lot of experience has been lost in the race to flat, in addition to lowered affordability of modern UIs. One bug: Firefox on Linux introduces an extra dotted rectangle on focused buttons (so they end up with two oddly overlapping focus indicators)
There are a few extra bugs: one should be able to style a 'default' button with an extra black border giving it a lightly "inset" appearance, as is usual in this style. And "disabled" buttons shouldn't react to a click by changing their appearance. It would also be nice to support tristate checkbox and radio buttons (the "3rd" state is basically a selection with lowered contrast, so this should be achievable) and "ON/OFF switch"-like controls, which appear as "sticky" buttons where the ON state also has a lighter background.
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#17We've come full circle. Thank you for this. It's so simple it's actually peaceful
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#18Surprising how rough on the eyes nostalgia can be, between the small font size and low contrast colors.
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#19That's as refreshing as a dunk in a cold pool. My God we need more UIs that instantly tell you what they can and cannot do. Seems like the modern ones do as much as they can to obscure everything.
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#20Isn't it a bit ridiculous that we need to do this in the first place? Shouldn't clear 3D controls on a neutral gray background be the default user-agent appearance, with no need for custom CSS of any sort?
Considering non-formatted HTML files are supposed to be documents, not windows, no?
Adding to this: without any specification, the browser should, and does, use the operating system's native controls when rendering controls such as .