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Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by Moru »

sjwright wrote: post #29
hunter2_ wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was always slightly perplexed as to how that difference in orientation of colors leads to the out/in effect. I guess it's not so much the left/right but the top/bottom that really achieves this phenomenon, given how most daily light sources come from above (sun, ceiling fixtures, floor lamps) and there are relatively few instances of uplighting (landscaping, ...) around us.

The up–down orientation unquestionably comes from the near-universality of light sources being above you. You'll notice that intense up-lighting is almost never found in the natural or artificial world. (It's true that upwards-firing lights are often used in interior decoration, but these are almost always to illuminate walls and ceilings above us which then bounce light down to the contents of a room. Also, some tec…

Upward-firing lights are aimed at the roof to spread the light and create more ambient light. So is primarily used as a down-light by reflection anyway.

I'm not sure the left/right shadows are a learned thing from user interfaces. As a kid, long before I got my first computer I was drawing 3D forms. Shadows always was drawn as light came from the upper left.

Maybe this is because I draw with right hand so prefer light to come from the left so I don't shadow my hand?

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by hunter2_ »

Moru wrote: post #31
sjwright wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The up–down orientation unquestionably comes from the near-universality of light sources being above you. You'll notice that intense up-lighting is almost never found in the natural or artificial world. (It's true that upwards-firing lights are often used in interior decoration, but these are almost always to illuminate walls and ceilings above us which then bounce light down to the contents of a room. Also, some tec…

Upward-firing lights are aimed at the roof to spread the light and create more ambient light. So is primarily used as a down-light by reflection anyway. I'm not sure the left/right shadows are a learned thing from user interfaces. As a kid, long before I got my first computer I was drawing 3D forms. Shadows always was drawn as light came from the upper left. Maybe this is because I draw with right hand so prefer ligh…

Now you've got me wondering if the left/right shadow preference might actually be rooted in other natural phenomena besides human dominant handedness, like something with the rotation of the earth a.k.a. sun setting in the west.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by SlackingOff123 »

crazygringo wrote: post #14

To do this for Chrome, all you need is the popular Stylus extension [1] and OP can upload it to userstyles.org [2] for even more convenience (don't need to download a CSS file). Also to be even more Windows 95-ey I recommend making the top links (new, past, etc.) look like a tab bar! (I really like the way the footer links look like a status bar.) [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe... [2…

Stylus is available for Firefox as well [1] and it makes it a lot easier to install custom styles.

[1]https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/styl-us

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by antihero »

rob74 wrote: post #19

Looks nice, but the shadows on the buttons are wrong: the top and left edges should be white, the other two black. This way, the buttons look more like elements of a status bar, those had the borders reversed to produce an "inset" effect (like in this screenshot: http://173.255.209.242/chhtml/toolkit/demos/Windows/gifs/gad... )

Or make them actual tabs.

Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95

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Post by kalleboo »

anyfoo wrote: post #16

I’ve added a user style sheet in Safari somewhat recently to fix an annoying video player. I think it was easy to find in Settings. Can someone check if that works? Not near my laptop right now, and I use a 3rd party app on the phone.

It's easy to add as a user style sheet in Safari (Preferences > Advanced > Stylesheet), but there's no CSS selector to limit it to a domain, so it makes the whole web turn Windows 95 style, not just Hacker News.
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