My god they have even managed to switch off the anti aliasing of fonts! Looks so accurate I doubt I would be able to tell the difference, well done.
98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
81–90 of 216 posts
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#82Author here! Thanks for all the nice comments (and helpful bug reports). This idea has been in the back of my mind for ~2 years now but I recently got a wave of motivation and decided to ride it - and here we are. Happy to answer any Qs :)
just wanted to say kudos for the BA Test Kitchen reference!
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#83that'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 don't know, Windows 95 looked crude even during its day. Functional, but not pleasant. I guess Brutalist would be the term? As soon as there was the ability to skin it, people tried to veer away the default look, with Mac-like styles being a common alternative.
People probably have rose-tinted nostalgia for the 95 era because of the nightmare that followed: Windows XP :)
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#84Looks nice, gonna try to use it some of my projects. The old Windows UI is really functional and easy to understand
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#86Strong And Beautiful, Just Like Deals And Discounts.
https://bit.ly/3eAbZ2K
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#87Author here! Thanks for all the nice comments (and helpful bug reports). This idea has been in the back of my mind for ~2 years now but I recently got a wave of motivation and decided to ride it - and here we are. Happy to answer any Qs :)
I think the Text input field doesn’t match the rest.
On iOS text and textarea are rounded. Not sure if you can override that with css.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#88Looks nice, gonna try to use it some of my projects. The old Windows UI is really functional and easy to understand
I generally agree, but as Semiapies pointed out there's some low-contrast text in places.
Vaguely relevant: The FOX Toolkit implements the Windows 95 look for lightweight Linux/Windows GUI applications. [0] A pity we don't see more GUIs like that today.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#89Oh, those days when designers actually thought of ergonomic vs modern insanity with no standard, no contrast, no ability to deduct function from the look etc. etc. Well there are exceptions but generic picture looks rather depressing.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#90Now bring me a visual editor like the one in visual basic