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

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Post by metadat » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 9:41 PM UTC

98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
jdan.github.io

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

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Post by retrocryptid » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 9:54 PM UTC

It's disturbing how much I love this. Also Licensed under a MIT license. Very Nice.

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

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Post by grenoire » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 9:54 PM UTC

Honestly full-assed implementation. Font hinting is a bit odd with a green sheen on Firefox Win 10...

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

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Post by raydiatian » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:01 PM UTC

retrocryptid wrote: post #2

It's disturbing how much I love this. Also Licensed under a MIT license. Very Nice.

Can Microsoft sue for something like this? Ethically I don’t think they should. But, can they?

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

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Post by alberth » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:03 PM UTC

I give this a “10” on the UI usability scorecard.

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

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Post by pshirshov » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:05 PM UTC

Cool. Does not support dark mode though.

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

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Post by pmalynin » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

raydiatian wrote: post #4

retrocryptid wrote: post #2

It's disturbing how much I love this. Also Licensed under a MIT license. Very Nice.

Can Microsoft sue for something like this? Ethically I don’t think they should. But, can they?

You can sue anyone for anything, this is America.

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

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Post by girvo » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

pshirshov wrote: post #6

Cool. Does not support dark mode though.

Honest question, because I don’t remember: does Windows 98?

I know you could edit the theme around to set the UI scheme colours to a darker one, but as a kid I could never make it look nice

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

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Post by massung » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:12 PM UTC

raydiatian wrote: post #4

retrocryptid wrote: post #2

It's disturbing how much I love this. Also Licensed under a MIT license. Very Nice.

Can Microsoft sue for something like this? Ethically I don’t think they should. But, can they?

IANAL, but I think not.

I think this because there have been a plethora of tools and libraries over the decades (think Tk, WxWidgets, and similar) that emulate the native look-and-feel of the OS and I believe a company has to defend it's IP/copyrights otherwise it implicitly loses the ability to do so in the future.

See: https://www.varnumlaw.com/insights/enforce-your-intellectual...

Consequently, this is why companies will so often be quick to "attack" random side projects people do targeting their IP (even very old IP). It isn't necessarily out of a malicious desire so much as a legal requirement. If they don't then a "serious" company can follow suit and then they have no ability to fight it.

Edit: to be clear, obviously they _can_ sue.

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

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Post by laserdancepony » Sun, Oct 23, 2022, 10:17 PM UTC

pshirshov wrote: post #6

Cool. Does not support dark mode though.

There was no dark mode fad in 1998. Different color schemes for visually impaired people existed, but they were most often not very aesthetic.