98.css

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*

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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2024 (471 points, 93 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42056918

2022 (606 points, 182 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33310554

2020 (838 points, 211 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22940564

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

I used this to build my personal site: https://ka.ge . It's a pixel-perfect (and functional) recreation of the windows 98 desktop environment in under a MB.

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

A few months back I was playing around with win32 UI widgets and found one instance of surprising behavior which diverges from what is implemented here. To be clear this is not a dig on the project, and in particular the way it works on the web feels more correct to me.

When using the TrackBar widget, equivalent of <input type=range min=0 max=100 value=0>, assuming you have value 0 / 100 if you click on the line bar it will jump to the 20 value regardless of how far or close you click on the line [0]. I found that behavior very surprising, and would've expected it to jump to wherever you clicked.

[0] https://bsky.app/profile/cesarandreu.bsky.social/post/3mitlr...

Is there a version for Windows 7 as well? Because, that was the last good design from anyone from that era and everything just went downhill after that.