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  sodapopcan
  Flat design is so ridiculous. Made someone a bunch of money. Now everyone follows like sheep. Sorry for the doomer comment but, like, really. I'd love to say that I'm surprised that we haven't gotten over this, but given it's been... 20 years (?)... I'm not surprised.Also, the way multi-row tabs Just Work in the UIs of yesteryear *chef's kiss*
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  jordanscales
  Author here! This was my burnout recovery project and holds a place near and dear to my heart. https://notes.jordanscales.com/98-css-reflections
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  OsrsNeedsf2P
  I really want to make one of my websites use this.. I just can't think of one that would fit.Also shout out XFCE-winxp-tc, which makes your Linux look like Windows XP. Lots of people know about Chicago95, but this project is excellent for that 2004 vibe[0] https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc
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  gnabgib
  Popular in2024 (471 points, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=420569182022 (606 points, 182 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=333105542020 (838 points, 211 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22940564
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  zemo
  unjokingly I think the fact that we removed grayed out buttons for "the button just doesn't appear" is one of the more confusing UI trends of our day and the sight of a grayed out button warms my heart
• luciana1u
  someday someone will ship 2010s.css to recreate the flat design era and it'll be three lines of CSS that make everything look like nothing
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  zkmon
  With every new version of the OS, the UI desigenrs were forced to show some change and call it improvement, even though those changes functionally unnecessary, more resource consuming, less faster, and less reliable.
• fitsumbelay
  This is pretty cool plus I love anything that references classics like 980css and 2Advanced. I'm even OK with hearing the word "Flash" now in a way that some day I'll be with hearing "React" ...
• pxtail
  Nitpick: tabs in the multirow tabs example do not change position randomly as they should when clicked
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  bhouston
  Very authentic almost down to the pixel. I love it!Btw default buttons like OK should have a thick black outline.Also windows UIs loved group boxes and radio buttons and checkboxes. I notice those are missing.Also it seems that the dropdown is missing.
• kushalpandya
  While the browser support is not complete, styling the dropdown menu to match with Windows 98 should still be doable https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn_web_developme...
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  sshworld
  Impressie that this is pure CSS with no JavaScript. The border and box-shadow tricks to recreate the beveled Win98 look are really well done!
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  lambdaone
  Windows XP and MacOS System 7 had pretty good looking GUIs. Since then, modern keyboard-and-mouse UIs have not really improved that much; it's mostly been just evolving and polishing styling. All the real innovation has been on touchscreen devices.
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  wseqyrku
  Folks, can we have a css framework for TUIs please?
• olivierestsage
  Still waiting desperately on a KDE theme for the win32 aesthetic
• ithadhumor
  This is so clean. It reminds me of the good ol’ times.
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  cush
  Seeing this makes me unreasonably happy. Funny how nostalgia is
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  ranger_danger
  https://github.com/lolstring/window98-html-css-jshttps://github.com/anthmn/hackertosh.csshttps://github.com/AlexBSoft/win95.csshttps://github.com/1j01/os-guihttps://github.com/themesberg/windows-95-ui-kithttps://github.com/andersevenrud/retro-css-shell-demohttps://github.com/arturbien/React95https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.csshttps://github.com/Gioni06/terminal.csshttps://github.com/jdan/98.csshttps://github.com/jianzhongli/csswin10https://github.com/khang-nd/7.csshttps://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386https://github.com/lachsfilet/Renkbenchhttps://github.com/lolstring/window98-html-css-jshttps://github.com/micah5/PSone.csshttps://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.csshttps://github.com/npjg/classic.csshttps://github.com/robbiebyrd/platinumhttps://github.com/bryanbraun/after-dark-csshttps://github.com/npjg/new-dawnhttps://github.com/ritenv/retro-desktophttps://github.com/RoelN/c64css3https://github.com/sakofchit/system.csshttps://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCsshttps://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/https://cs16.samke.me/https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/https://thesimscss.inbn.dev/https://snes-css.sadlative.com/https://css.ds.dreamyard.xyz/https://irv77.github.io/Xbox360UI/
• simonw
  The blue gradients on the titlebars are actually very pleasing.
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  conductr
  The HTML formatting behind the ‘Show Code’ triggered some PTSD when it appeared
• blakeburnette
  This is lovely.
• jagged-chisel
  The link points to the status bar. Was that intentional?
• pdntspa
  Finally, a throwback lib that seems to be mostly pixel-accurate! Some of the element spacing seems to be off but it does actually look like Windows 98.The lack of accuracy and attention to detail in a lot of these efforts is incredibly irksome and annoying, just about as obnoxious as pixel-art games with inconsistent pixel sizes (like how hard is it to render to a smaller buffer and do a simple linear upscale?!?)
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