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

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Post by hnlmorg »

hunter2_ wrote: post #32
Moru wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're over thinking things there. More likely it's just an artefact of those interfaces being designed in the countries who read left to right.

Off topic but I like how you've referenced that infamous IRC meme in your HN handle.

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

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Post by chungy »

asveikau wrote: post #26
hunter2_ wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

1.x=1.x 2.x=2.x 3.x,NT3.x=3.x 95,NT4=4.0 98=4.1 ME=4.9 2000=5.0 XP=5.1 2003=5.2 Vista,2008=6.0 7,2008=6.1 8,2012=6.2 8.1=6.3 10,2016,2019=10 Makes perfect sense, right? Honestly I can deal with most of it, but couldn't they have realigned at 7? https://www.gaijin.at/en/infos/windows-version-numbers

Yeah, in early prerelease they had 7 report as 7.0. But the story goes there was buggy code out there that said: if (major == 6) { // Do the thing that works on Vista } else { // Do the thing that only worked on XP and earlier } And they wanted Win7 to hit the Vista-ready code. So they kept major at 6 for a long time. I guess they stopped caring for Win10.

Even more to the point, the kernel major version number represented an implicit ABI compatibility for drivers.

Windows 4.9 could load drivers for 4.0. 5.2 could load drivers for 5.0. 6.3 could load drivers for 6.0...

Windows 10... can still load 6.x drivers, but it bumped the internal version number to 10.0. It is worked around because without an explicit "I'm Windows 10-compatible!" manifest, the OS just lies and reports an internal version of 6.3, along with the ProductName string remaining "Windows 8.1"

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

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Post by spuz »

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…

If you don't want to install a 3rd party extension (maybe it seems like too much of a risk for such a frivolous purpose), then you can make your own. Just download hacker95.css and create a file called manifest.json in the same directory with these contents:

{ "name": "Hacker News 95 Extension", "version": "1.0", "description": "Hacker News 95 Extension", "permissions": ["activeTab"], "content_scripts": [ { "matches": ["https://new.ycombinator.com/*"], "css": ["hacker95.css"] } ], "manifest_version": 2 }

Then in your Chrome Extensions settings, find the option to "Load unpacked extension" and point it to your directory.

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

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Post by MaxBarraclough »

slowwriter wrote: post #44

Honestly my immediate thought was, doesn't it kind of already? Just kidding

I don't think it's an insult anyway. I like the clean and simple look, and the Windows 95 theme gets a lot right in terms of UI design. Generally high contrast, easy to tell at a glance which widgets are clickable.

Hacker95 seems to get the Windows 95 buttons wrong though, showing them as 'sunken', and not giving a clear impression of being clickable.

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

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Post by myfonj »

userbinator wrote: post #8
bobbyz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up

Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh... (The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions ro…

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=347016

Issue asking for reintroducing native user style sheets in Chrome, with precise argumentation and long discussion. Does not seem likely to be heard, but symbolical starring doesn't hurt…

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

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Post by slowwriter »

MaxBarraclough wrote: post #46
slowwriter wrote: post #44

Honestly my immediate thought was, doesn't it kind of already? Just kidding

I don't think it's an insult anyway. I like the clean and simple look, and the Windows 95 theme gets a lot right in terms of UI design. Generally high contrast, easy to tell at a glance which widgets are clickable. Hacker95 seems to get the Windows 95 buttons wrong though, showing them as 'sunken', and not giving a clear impression of being clickable.

It's a joky insult. Hacker News and Windows 95 have in common that they look objectively old. But what they also have in common is that they are function over form in an atypically pure sense, especially compared to some modern UI design.

Although I prefer a more balanced approach on the spectrum of pure function and pure form, pure function beats pure form any day

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

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Post by encom »

userbinator wrote: post #8
bobbyz wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up

Chrome removed that functionality a few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ymfgw/user_stylesh... (The comment there that removing this "is going to help increase speed significantly in the future" is pure BS. If anything, user stylesheet functionality was handled in native code --- just adding another CSS to the page --- which makes it far more efficient than going through the whole JS/extensions ro…

>The Internet is becoming more and more user-hostile, and it's not just websites who are responsible.

That's because the webbrowser has been pushed away from hyperlinked documents viewer, to essentially a virtual machine running untrusted code from anywhere.

It's probably Googles fault somehow. They seem determined to ruin everything.

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

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Post by coronadisaster »

cryptoz wrote: post #20
asveikau wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's correct. 98 was the first release to have it, chronologically speaking. 2000 was the first NT based Windows to have it. So 98/NT didn't make sense to me. NT4, the last release to use the name NT, had a very Win95-like appearance. I also remember NT 3.51 (and I guess there were other 3.x) that had a very Win3.1-like UI despite being 32 bit.

Yeah you got me. Fair enough. Windows 2000 was amazing and just my favorite OS. Saying that as a linux user.

Win2000 was the most perfect and least buggy Windows version of all time.
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