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incredible work (really) but this is obviously not a realistic user experience: I can tell what's clickable on the screen easily and things are generally too consistent and simply make too much sense I mean, neat concept, but really lacking in the user hostility that today's users demand
This would not only look great, but run incredibly fast: Low-res bitmap icons, bitmap fonts, no antialiasing, no composition, etc. On Linux you can still have a pretty old school desktop with some of these elements... but may not run well on HiDPI.
Makes me wonder what sort of currently extremely common UI elements we'll look down on in the near future.
Why did it take us so long to get rid of these oversized scrollbars? I can't recall monitor quality of 90s/00s but surely the scrollbars didn't need to take 5% fo the real estate, right? Makes me wonder what sort of currently extremely common UI elements we'll look down on in the near future.
I know at least one person who would pay _very good money_ for a version of Slack that opened channels in separate windows.
Why did it take us so long to get rid of these oversized scrollbars? I can't recall monitor quality of 90s/00s but surely the scrollbars didn't need to take 5% fo the real estate, right? Makes me wonder what sort of currently extremely common UI elements we'll look down on in the near future.
It was common for mice not to have wheels. In fact, the mouse that came with the computer shown only had one big button. People needed to be able to actually click on the scroll bar to use it.
Why did it take us so long to get rid of these oversized scrollbars? I can't recall monitor quality of 90s/00s but surely the scrollbars didn't need to take 5% fo the real estate, right? Makes me wonder what sort of currently extremely common UI elements we'll look down on in the near future.
I know at least one person who would pay _very good money_ for a version of Slack that opened channels in separate windows.
It genuinely feels like it could fit into a couple of MB of RAM back in those days and been super snappy. I literally do not use slack for anything that IRC wouldn't do back in the late 90s, with the exception of threads, embedded images, and emojis.
It is crazy how close but how far IRC was. Session persistence, notification support even when offline, better admin UI was really all it needed. And probably be totally centralised.