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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

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Post by csmattryder »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #30
zapzupnz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

Not anymore for chrome & edge https://blog.chromium.org/2020/03/updates-to-form-controls-a... All part of Google's master plan to commoditize desktop OSs. Everyone outside the US already uses Android, soon your computer will be a Chrome box instead of a Windows/Mac/Linux box. First they did the browser title bar & tab bar integration/styling & removed the normal OS title bar, then they made Chrome OS, now they are re…

> 20 years from now they will have a gigantic monopoly over a huge range of computing.

I'm not worried. Mozilla/Microsoft used to be in a similar position with Firefox/IE at one time.

Now they're both playing second fiddle to Chrome. The only constant in tech is that everything changes.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by ccozan »

the_pwner224 wrote: post #30
zapzupnz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 .

Not anymore for chrome & edge https://blog.chromium.org/2020/03/updates-to-form-controls-a... All part of Google's master plan to commoditize desktop OSs. Everyone outside the US already uses Android, soon your computer will be a Chrome box instead of a Windows/Mac/Linux box. First they did the browser title bar & tab bar integration/styling & removed the normal OS title bar, then they made Chrome OS, now they are re…

"Most of the kids I know think MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint are lame "

Wait until they reach the age and get hired in a corporation. I am a die hard linux user ( been on linux desktop more than i can remember ), but the latest stuff (=365) from MS is really appealing compared with gSuite. It has a level of sophistication that Google cannot reach.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by cm2187 »

atum47 wrote: post #25

that's really gorgeous. I find windows 95 aesthetics a master piece. I'm not gonna lie, I thought about windows 95 when I was creating FOS, my Fake Operational System "framework". I'm thinking about refactoring it and I'll may incorporate windows color scheme to it. Here's the link if you wanna see what I am talking about. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos

Fashion is cyclical. At one point people will get bored of these ambiguous modern UI with hidden fields and gestures, and made of 50 shades of light grey that only a calibrated display can render with any discernable contrast. And we will rediscover the merit of clear and explicit UIs, and Apple will claim it just invented it!

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by prezjordan »

chadlavi wrote: post #11

> Today's mood > > Claire Saffitz > > Brad Leone > > Chris Morocco > > Carla Lalli Music 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.

;) Glad someone noticed. A few other goodies in there.

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by schrijver »

cm2187 wrote: post #75
atum47 wrote: post #25

that's really gorgeous. I find windows 95 aesthetics a master piece. I'm not gonna lie, I thought about windows 95 when I was creating FOS, my Fake Operational System "framework". I'm thinking about refactoring it and I'll may incorporate windows color scheme to it. Here's the link if you wanna see what I am talking about. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos

Fashion is cyclical. At one point people will get bored of these ambiguous modern UI with hidden fields and gestures, and made of 50 shades of light grey that only a calibrated display can render with any discernable contrast. And we will rediscover the merit of clear and explicit UIs, and Apple will claim it just invented it!

I wouldn’t be surprised :) The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion, I see it a lot on flyers, web art… just not yet in computer applications! I guess that’s a matter of time. Check out the flyer for this party: https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-mag...

They used vectors, looks like the Windows 95 aesthetics that was so connected to pixel survives this transition quite well!

Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Post by sedatk »

pazimzadeh wrote: post #39
atum47 wrote: post #25

that's really gorgeous. I find windows 95 aesthetics a master piece. I'm not gonna lie, I thought about windows 95 when I was creating FOS, my Fake Operational System "framework". I'm thinking about refactoring it and I'll may incorporate windows color scheme to it. Here's the link if you wanna see what I am talking about. https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos

I think it's really the NeXTSTEP aesthetic.

...or OSF/Motif aesthetic.
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