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Re: 98.css

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Post by jordanscales »

Gabrys1 wrote: post #96
jordanscales wrote: post #23

Author here! This was my burnout recovery project and holds a place near and dear to my heart. https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

Firefox (Nightly) on Android: tabs don't work: when clicking on a tab, the URL changes, there's a slight jump in content, but the new tab is not selected. Hope this helps

The tabs on the home page aren't wired up because doing so requires JavaScript

> Tabs should be managed by adding custom javascript code. All you need is to add the [aria-selected=true] attribute to the active tab.

Re: 98.css

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Post by maxquinn »

jordanscales wrote: post #23

Author here! This was my burnout recovery project and holds a place near and dear to my heart. https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections

Wow SimGolf was something I spent so much time on as a kid and haven't thought about in years! Thanks for the nostalgia trip.

Re: 98.css

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Post by harry8 »

j16sdiz wrote: post #66
harry8 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The part where the rows switch order based on the last one you clicked so if you're searching you can't be systematic without an amazing memory is POISON for discoverability.

Start on the top left tab, now it's on the bottom row. Thanks.

Re: 98.css

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Post by CM30 »

Looks pretty neat. Definitely brings me back to the olden days of Windows 98, that's for sure.

However, is there any JavaScript functionality implemented here? I tried clicking on the tabs in the tab component, and nothing happened. There's also no talk about that side of things on the page itself.

So, would be nice to have some sort of scripting functionality for the more interactive elements here.

Re: 98.css

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Post by ghtbircshotbe »

The page references a document Microsoft Windows User Experience. Is this online somewhere? I can only find Amazon links. Are there other good design manuals I can find online?

Re: 98.css

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Post by dysoco »

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*

Most people crave change and novelty and flat design provided just that. I'm now anti-flat design but I remember vividly thinking Windows Vista looked awesome and then some years after that thinking Windows 8 was pretty cool.

Now I long for skeuomorphism, but if that becomes the norm for 10 years... after that who knows?

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