Isn't it a bit ridiculous that we need to do this in the first place? Shouldn't clear 3D controls on a neutral gray background be the default user-agent appearance, with no need for custom CSS of any sort?
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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
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#22Certainly evokes a lot of nostalgia. The tactile feel of 3D buttons can be mesmerizing at times, a lot of experience has been lost in the race to flat, in addition to lowered affordability of modern UIs. One bug: Firefox on Linux introduces an extra dotted rectangle on focused buttons (so they end up with two oddly overlapping focus indicators)
I’m observing this extra outline on Firefox Nightly on Windows. I can’t discern what’s making it, and suspect it may be a Firefox bug, somehow.
It's literally a feature, not a bug:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::-moz-focu...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71074/how-to-remove-fire...
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#23I was going to post the quote about them not stopping to think if they should, but then I actually clicked the link. Wow, that brought back a lot of nostalgia. I haven't even used Windows in 15+ years, but I now realize that I still have a fondness for the interface of my youth ;-)
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m observing this extra outline on Firefox Nightly on Windows. I can’t discern what’s making it, and suspect it may be a Firefox bug, somehow.
It's literally a feature, not a bug: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::-moz-focu... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/71074/how-to-remove-fire...
Ah yes, I had completely forgotten about ::-moz-focus-inner.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#25that's really gorgeous. I find windows 95 aesthetics a master piece. I'm not gonna lie, I thought about windows 95 when I was creating FOS, my Fake Operational System "framework".
I'm thinking about refactoring it and I'll may incorporate windows color scheme to it. Here's the link if you wanna see what I am talking about.
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#26This is great, I would love to be able to use this. Win98 always felt like a highpoint in easy to UI design. I am not a CSS ninja, how easy would it be to make this responsive? The example do not appear to be responsive.
From what I could see they were responsive
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#27That's as refreshing as a dunk in a cold pool. My God we need more UIs that instantly tell you what they can and cannot do. Seems like the modern ones do as much as they can to obscure everything.
Considering how cyclical everything is I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a return to Win95/98 style UIs soon enough. They’ll advertise it as “revolutionising productivity with an innovative new approach to desktop computing” and give us the a recoloured Win98.
I’d probably switch back to Windows if they did.
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#28I was going to post the quote about them not stopping to think if they should, but then I actually clicked the link. Wow, that brought back a lot of nostalgia. I haven't even used Windows in 15+ years, but I now realize that I still have a fondness for the interface of my youth ;-)
I might be a few years older than you – I get far stronger nostalgic feelings from Windows 3.x UI than that of Windows 9x.
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#29If the author is here, this is perfect except for 'space' not being able to click a button
Re: 98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs
#30Isn't it a bit ridiculous that we need to do this in the first place? Shouldn't clear 3D controls on a neutral gray background be the default user-agent appearance, with no need for custom CSS of any sort?
Considering non-formatted HTML files are supposed to be documents, not windows, no? Adding to this: without any specification, the browser should, and does, use the operating system's native controls when rendering controls such as .
Not anymore for chrome & edge
https://blog.chromium.org/2020/03/updates-to-form-controls-a...
All part of Google's master plan to commoditize desktop OSs. Everyone outside the US already uses Android, soon your computer will be a Chrome box instead of a Windows/Mac/Linux box.
First they did the browser title bar & tab bar integration/styling & removed the normal OS title bar, then they made Chrome OS, now they are removing the last traces of OS-specific styling for those who haven't already switched to Chrome OS.
And Gmail, Gdocs, and Chromebooks are huge in kids schools. The kids don't know anything outside the non-Google universe. Most of the kids I know think MS Word/Excel/PowerPoint are lame (not that I'm a fan, but you have to admit MS Office is unrivaled in its abilities).
20 years from now they will have a gigantic monopoly over a huge range of computing.