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Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by lisper »

leephillips wrote: post #137
everdrive wrote: post #117

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This is better than 50% of websites out there today. I can find all the buttons, the functions of things are clear, and I know how to contact the owner. The menu is text instead of PDF, and the whole thing appears to run properly without javascript enabled.

The brilliance goes beyond the web design. From that menu: "DINO would like you to know that more than three toppings will be expensive and won't be any better."

That alone makes me want to order a pizza from them.

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by yutyut »

leni536 wrote: post #129
a_lieb wrote: post #104

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This is glorious. The only way I could tell with any confidence it wasn't real was the clean, modern HTML and CSS (get with the program folks, this should be non-validating XHTML 1.1!) Nice easter egg from the source code: -->

topgun.mid actually exists.

And now I have a new ringtone.

Finally, I can wear my love for top gun on my sleeve and—for the first time in a decade—take my phone off vibrate.

Edit: why is this so hard to do on an iPhone? Guess I shouldn’t be surprised.

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by Cpoll »

jtvjan wrote: post #116
arrayjumper wrote: post #105

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I'm happy to report that I was able to download the zip file and run the executable on my Ubuntu box with Wine. It was quite surreal to see Netscape installer running on my 4k monitor. I was even able to open the browser and navigate to Google. Sadly https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ and http://www.dinostomatopie.com/ failed to open with a message saying "Netscape and this server cannot communicate securely because the…

What's the point of forcing HTTPS? It's a pizza place, not a bank.

It stops a man-in-the-middle attacker from trying to exploit your browser/extensions/password manager by injecting code into that site (once the cert is pinned).

It might also help with SEO? Google's been pushing for https everywhere.

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by Narishma »

aasasd wrote: post #115
nullc wrote: post #44

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> My '90s computer had a single 1280x1024 CRT where I always had to tweak the focus and alignment to get readable text. With no GPU, scrolling in an editor was always an exercise in patience, watching the text repaint line by line. I don't intend to insult, but to me this came across to me as a kid larping as someone who used computers in the 90s. Computers have improved by hardly imaginable magnitudes, but latency a…

I happen to have an experience with Pentium at 75 MHz, where text in Borland Pascal on DOS appeared slower than I could type (long before learning touch-typing), and pressing backspace after spotting an error required some patience. Scrolling in GUIs is known to be sorta expensive: it's normally offloaded to the graphics system to be done wholesale as just a shift of the image, but if your GPU drivers suck then you'r…

I find that hard to believe. Borland IDEs ran extremely well on the 386 and 486 machines of the day. If you're having trouble with them on a Pentium you probably misconfigured something.

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by dmalvarado »

jsolson wrote: post #50

I need to send this to the people who designed the website for one of my favorite local pizza places, Dino's ( https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ ) -- they did _really_ well, generally, but no matter how hard you try, some things come through: the fonts rendered as text are perfectly crisp at whatever absurd DPI this Chromebook has.

Holy crap, you can download Netscape 4.7.2 from that site..

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by aasasd »

Narishma wrote: post #144
aasasd wrote: post #115

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I happen to have an experience with Pentium at 75 MHz, where text in Borland Pascal on DOS appeared slower than I could type (long before learning touch-typing), and pressing backspace after spotting an error required some patience. Scrolling in GUIs is known to be sorta expensive: it's normally offloaded to the graphics system to be done wholesale as just a shift of the image, but if your GPU drivers suck then you'r…

I find that hard to believe. Borland IDEs ran extremely well on the 386 and 486 machines of the day. If you're having trouble with them on a Pentium you probably misconfigured something.

Wasn't my call, as it was a uni machine.

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by schrijver »

dhosek wrote: post #28

The naïve potrace output looks very 90s in a grunge typography sort of way. I donated the archives of Serif magazine to the Scripps College library a decade ago which included a large collection of 1990s type specimens but I'm pretty sure that there was a T-26 face that looked very much like the sample that they showed from potrace.

Not quite the same, but in the 1990s Neville Brody released a font called ‘Autotrace’ that consists of several variations of a badly traced sans-serif https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-autotrace

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by asveikau »

wbl wrote: post #97
asveikau wrote: post #47

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I remember text editing UIs struggling when the machine was otherwise overloaded. Although that started happening much more when text editors started to be written in garbage collected languages more often, which I put in the current century. I still get that today if I use an old machine and/or a fancy text editor.

Emacs has always been written in Lisp, and it's possible for badly written code to make it lock up. Not a new complaint on low RAM machines where the gc and paging interact badly. But you need very low RAM by today's standards.

Carefully worded with "more often" because I knew emacs was an outlier. I was never an emacs person myself so I don't know it first hand, but in do know people used to call it a resource hog a long time ago.

Re: Convincing-looking 90s fonts in modern browsers

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Post by ashleyn »

purerandomness wrote: post #127
everdrive wrote: post #117

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This is better than 50% of websites out there today. I can find all the buttons, the functions of things are clear, and I know how to contact the owner. The menu is text instead of PDF, and the whole thing appears to run properly without javascript enabled.

* No scroll-jacking * browser history actually works * middle-click or ctrl+click on a link actually opens links in a new tab. * No loading spinners, content is rendered immediately. This site performs better than most SPAs.

* No modal prompts to sign up for a useless newsletter

* No enormous overlay asking me to approve cookies

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