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System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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Re: System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... - [NES.css]( https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css ): NES.css is a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. - [PSone.css]( https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css ): PS1 style CSS Framework, inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css]( https://latex.now.sh/ ) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.c…

This is awesome. I don't think i've bookmarked so many links in one go.

Re: System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... - [NES.css]( https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css ): NES.css is a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. - [PSone.css]( https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css ): PS1 style CSS Framework, inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css]( https://latex.now.sh/ ) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.c…

For some reason, HackerNews does not render all the links correctly in this comment

Re: System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... - [NES.css]( https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css ): NES.css is a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. - [PSone.css]( https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css ): PS1 style CSS Framework, inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css]( https://latex.now.sh/ ) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.c…

BIOS like UI is Turbo Vision framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision - one of the earliest windowed application frameworks. Not GUI framework, obviously. Made by Borland and made famous by its IDEs like Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal.

Nowadays available as open source: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

Re: System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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When I look at this I can’t help thinking that desktop UX reached its peak (or plateau?) three decades ago. What improvements have there been since System 6? Perhaps multiple desktops, tabs, and universal search (e.g. Spotlight) but those improvements feel more incremental than fundamental.

> What improvements have there been since System 6 I can use touch gestures, scroll intuitively or swipe between recently active websites or apps on my iOS device. I can work seamlessly on the same document using multiple devices and/or with multiple people. (Web) UX advances let me view maps, browse apartment listings, compare various kinds of products and order stuff online. Then again, not sure how much all that i…

To be fair, they said desktop OS, where touch is pretty much irrelevant.

Desktop OS has mostly been marked by innovations that didn’t really pan out even if they were interesting (e.g. Windows 8 and the tile-based Metro UX)

Re: System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... - [NES.css]( https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css ): NES.css is a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. - [PSone.css]( https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css ): PS1 style CSS Framework, inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css]( https://latex.now.sh/ ) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.c…

BIOS like UI is Turbo Vision framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision - one of the earliest windowed application frameworks. Not GUI framework, obviously. Made by Borland and made famous by its IDEs like Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal. Nowadays available as open source: https://github.com/magiblot/tvision

not CSS though. so doesnt fit on my list!

Re: System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces

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I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... - [NES.css]( https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css ): NES.css is a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. - [PSone.css]( https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css ): PS1 style CSS Framework, inspired by NES.css. - [LaTeX.css]( https://latex.now.sh/ ) - Operating System CSS - [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.c…

This is awesome. I don't think i've bookmarked so many links in one go.

lol someday i'll try to turn this into a moneymaking side project but right now just having fun being a resource hoarder
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