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This is excellent, with the very minor detail of the fonts, which look a little off, and perhaps a little too anti-aliased? This seems to be the main issue with all web-based retro simulations of Windows 9x and XP. I'm guessing this is because the default font (Tahoma?) isn't freely licensed? Everything else is spot on, though!
http://www.windows93.net
Modern js done right can provide top tier interfaces. So many frontend let performance go by the way side when making interactive web apps.
And performance can also be UX, how things appear and the flow of the loading. Things like placeholder boxes [1] with the same size so the load isn’t janky is one good hack. The sort of thing you don’t have to care about with native apps.
[1] I’m on the fence about the value of loading icons in each placeholder, they’ll figure out something is loaded soon enough. Not need for the distraction or highlighting loading times. Errors for components are another matter.
Although of course server side rendering of everything is the ideal initial state.
This still is one of the best ux. This and Windows 2000. Straight to the point and fast.
Maybe one day Microsoft will release it under the GPL (also would take the Mozilla Public License or the Eclipse Public License).
Of course, even if the code was released, getting the theme released is a different matter.