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I may have missed one by looking at this huge dump, but NONE of the "buttons" I saw there actually looked/felt like a button. Something I can feel that I press it down and it gives proper visual feedback, like a little 3D effect. I'm old-school. :)
I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.
The legend of the Button-Eater who comes out from his lair somewhere deep inside the Web.
When did we stop making buttons that actually look like a button? The bas-relief era of UI design now feels like a golden era, and the early "Aqua" versions of Mac OS X the ultimate evolution. Everything since then feels like we're regressing. The "add comment" button for this comment is literally a solid blue roundrect. It's not even obvious that it's clickable.
The bas-relief was a rough rectangle less than an inch thick and about five by six inches in area; obviously of modern origin. Its designs, however, were far from modern in atmosphere and suggestion; for although the vagaries of cubism and futurism are many and wild, they do not often reproduce that cryptic regularity which lurks in prehistoric writing. And writing of some kind the bulk of these designs seemed certainly to be; though my memory, despite much familiarity with the papers and collections of my uncle, failed in any way to identify this particular species, or even to hint at its remotest affiliations.
Above these apparent hieroglyphics was a figure of evidently pictorial intent, though its impressionistic execution forbade a very clear idea of its nature. It seemed to be a sort of monster, or symbol representing a monster, of a form which only a diseased fancy could conceive.
- The Call of Cthulhu, Ch 1. The Horror in Clay
I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.
I have noticed on occasion websites with a missing button. Now I know what happened. Finally, closure.
It'd be funny if there's a global state shared with everyone who has the button stealer extension installed: so if I stole a button, it'd be missing when you visit the page.
When did we stop making buttons that actually look like a button? The bas-relief era of UI design now feels like a golden era, and the early "Aqua" versions of Mac OS X the ultimate evolution. Everything since then feels like we're regressing. The "add comment" button for this comment is literally a solid blue roundrect. It's not even obvious that it's clickable.
The "when" isn't a mystery or gradual in the slightest—we have concrete dates. The death of the button occurred on October 21, 2010, when Microsoft released Windows Phone 7 to the international market, beginning the Metro UI era. Apple wouldn't catch up until September 17, 2014, when they unveiled iOS 7, ditching Steve Jobs's beloved skeuomorphism in favor of Jony Ive's signature flat style. Google followed up on Nov…
They got rid of the button shadows, had them cycle through previews sometimes, and called them 'tiles', but they acted as buttons.
If you blockchain your buttons they are much harder to steal. Just putting this out there for those who are not in the know. This type of crisis is easily avoidable.
Too bad they're just static, as the website doesn't copy the hover state or the on-click animations.
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The legend of the Button-Eater who comes out from his lair somewhere deep inside the Web.
"average person steals 3 buttons a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person steals 0 buttons per year. Button-eater Ben, who lives in data server & steals over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted