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Re: 98.css

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Post by theandrewbailey »

sodapopcan wrote: post #52

Flat design is so ridiculous. Made someone a bunch of money. Now everyone follows like sheep. Sorry for the doomer comment but, like, really. I'd love to say that I'm surprised that we haven't gotten over this, but given it's been... 20 years (?)... I'm not surprised. Also, the way multi-row tabs Just Work in the UIs of yesteryear *chef's kiss*

We've been getting flatter over time. Win9x (and even 3.x) styles have subtle 3D cues, like the edges of buttons, window borders, tabs, and text boxes. There were gradients. Apparently, these are technologies that we've lost.

Re: 98.css

#66

Post by j16sdiz »

harry8 wrote: post #15
cush wrote: post #12

Seeing this makes me unreasonably happy. Funny how nostalgia is

Funny how nostalgia differs for different people. I hated all that so much at the time that I installed linux (RH 7.x) from a magazine cd and learned to program in C & perl. That multirows tab UI thing was an utter abomination against usability, intelligence, good sense, decency, justice and obviously any and all aesthetics. Why bring it back? To fix it maybe?

What about discoverability?

Multirow tab ai't pretty, but it allows you to know all your tabs -- unlike the modern scrollable tab bar that move one pixel on each click.

I guess this depends on you are using mouse clicks or have a touch screen you can swipe

Re: 98.css

#67

Post by inigyou »

theandrewbailey wrote: post #61
sodapopcan wrote: post #52

Flat design is so ridiculous. Made someone a bunch of money. Now everyone follows like sheep. Sorry for the doomer comment but, like, really. I'd love to say that I'm surprised that we haven't gotten over this, but given it's been... 20 years (?)... I'm not surprised. Also, the way multi-row tabs Just Work in the UIs of yesteryear *chef's kiss*

We've been getting flatter over time. Win9x (and even 3.x) styles have subtle 3D cues, like the edges of buttons, window borders, tabs, and text boxes. There were gradients. Apparently, these are technologies that we've lost.

Win3.1 style was completely flat and ugly though.

Re: 98.css

#68

Post by luciana1u »

someday someone will ship 2010s.css to recreate the flat design era and it'll be three lines of CSS that make everything look like nothing

Re: 98.css

#69

Post by ObscureScience »

inigyou wrote: post #67
theandrewbailey wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've been getting flatter over time. Win9x (and even 3.x) styles have subtle 3D cues, like the edges of buttons, window borders, tabs, and text boxes. There were gradients. Apparently, these are technologies that we've lost.

Win3.1 style was completely flat and ugly though.

Are you thinking of Win 2.0? https://static0.howtogeekimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/upl...

Re: 98.css

#70

Post by akoboldfrying »

zkmon wrote: post #60

With every new version of the OS, the UI desigenrs were forced to show some change and call it improvement, even though those changes functionally unnecessary, more resource consuming, less faster, and less reliable.

> less faster

I suspect those UI designers have been working on your comment, too

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