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

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Post by myfonj »

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…

Word of warning about userstyles.org: this site (as well as original "Stylish" browser extension) is in hands of some kind of PR agency that made some very questionable changes in the past and neglects this product now.

As an alternative you can post (or link) your style at https://greasyfork.org/ which newly supports Stylus user.css style format or even self-host the file somewhere (github perhaps). Seems PR is opened already: https://github.com/chowderman/Hacker95/issues/2)

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

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Post by pedrocx486 »

aspenmayer wrote: post #38
josefrichter wrote: post #36

Hacker News already does look like made in Win95 age.

I just let out a big oof IRL. Not sure if that it’s a bad thing or aesthetic though, to be honest.

Function over form. I don't think this is a bad thing, HN doesn't need to be any more advanced, it does its job really well as is.

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

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Post by oleganza »

allie1 wrote: post #35

Is it rigged to give you the good ole' blue screen of death every 10th click or so?

Because real Windows 95/98 had BSOD every 10th click or so and people could not get work done at all.

Funnily, in last few months on macOS Catalina i've got more kernel panics than in prior 13 years on Mac and 8 years of Windows combined.

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

#56

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://news.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

#57

Post by spuz »

spuz wrote: post #45
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"…

So my anti-procrastination setting kicked in just as I made this comment and now I can neither edit it or delete it. I made the same comment again with proper formatting of the json file.

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

#58

Post by OJFord »

hunter2_ wrote: post #24
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... )

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.

I agree it's bonkers. It's a direct corollary, but still a wild experience: turn your phone (/monitor/head) upside down.

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

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Post by josefrichter »

pedrocx486 wrote: post #52
aspenmayer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just let out a big oof IRL. Not sure if that it’s a bad thing or aesthetic though, to be honest.

Function over form. I don't think this is a bad thing, HN doesn't need to be any more advanced, it does its job really well as is.

Exactly. It works. Takes balls not to touch things that work.
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