Can we also get a Windows Vista version? That was the BEST Windows ever! I liked it so much!
Either this is some sarcasm, or this is the first time I found anyone that liked Vista.
98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
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#102Did Windows 98 really have such laughably low contrast between text and that dark grey background?
To give it some credit, CRTs handle such contrast quite differently to modern screen technologies. The CRT itself added a tiny bit of colour bleed and blurring and the fact the colour is radiated out (rather than filtered out, like on LCD based technologies) gave it more contrast than you'd think looking at these colours now.
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#103Hey HN - author here. This was my burnout recovery project in April of 2020. Very much a labor of love and a surprising way to realize I still liked programming. I wrote some scattered thoughts here [0] I also "run" this project quite differently than I usually do - when I receive a pull request instead of merging it I do a quick glance through the user's github to make sure they're not a spammer before giving them _…
This is awesome that it was so therapeutic to you! I have several such personal projects that I occasionally work on for similar reasons, moreover to experience the joy of pure programming as opposed to the daily BS I deal with. One critique (more of a suggested improvement) - the dropdown boxes don’t look/behave as they did in Win 98. They actually render as native select tags on my browser when focused and it kind…
Sounds like you want that commit access.
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#104When I click one of the "Click me", "Submit", "Preset" buttons in Components/Button section, entire page jumps with 1 pixel. Looks bad. Checkbox labels text is selectable. Should not happen in UI. Same about title bars. Title bars also do not set cursor: pointer. Also happens in some other components. Dropdown contents have wrong colors. I think they use default browser styling or something like that. Those are minor…
Better to contribute.
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#105Beautiful. It’s crazy to see this and realize how much current Windows is unusable. I haven’t used Windows in ~10 years and every time I see the current interface I can’t believe someone is able to use it without losing their mind.
Just curious but in what ways? Me, I used Windows for years until ~2008. In 2008 I started using both Mac and Windows. In 2010 I started using Linux, Mac, and Windows. I never really found one better than another. Each one had their strengths, none of them had huge UI issue for me at least. For example, one plus I find on Windows vs MacOS is I use Chrome with multiple profiles. Windows is able to display an icon per…
My favorite part of Windows is how it likes to add new features and demand my attention. And constantly use tons of cycles on VMs that aren't doing any work. And the bifurcated GUI configuration.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#106Hey HN - author here. This was my burnout recovery project in April of 2020. Very much a labor of love and a surprising way to realize I still liked programming. I wrote some scattered thoughts here [0] I also "run" this project quite differently than I usually do - when I receive a pull request instead of merging it I do a quick glance through the user's github to make sure they're not a spammer before giving them _…
Very nice thank you for sharing this.
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#107Re: labels with inputs
Isn’t it better to put the input inside the label tag so you avoid the awkward dead zone between the checkbox and the label text?
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#108I wouldn't really call this "faithful", I have yet to see actual pixel-perfect recreations of any Windows UI in any form whatsoever, but I'd love to see one.
I absolutely would. Not really sure what you’re on about.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just curious but in what ways? Me, I used Windows for years until ~2008. In 2008 I started using both Mac and Windows. In 2010 I started using Linux, Mac, and Windows. I never really found one better than another. Each one had their strengths, none of them had huge UI issue for me at least. For example, one plus I find on Windows vs MacOS is I use Chrome with multiple profiles. Windows is able to display an icon per…
For me the taskbar in W11 is a giant step back, all windows are collapsed into a group. No idea why they removed the ability to keep them expanded other than trying to mimic the look of OSX
Every other major release is a step back for Windows. It’s as if they’ve not noticed that trend.