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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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838 points bennettfeely | 1 comments | 21 Apr 20 23:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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slobotron ◴[22 Apr 20 02:55 UTC] No.22941584[source]▶
Certainly evokes a lot of nostalgia. The tactile feel of 3D buttons can be mesmerizing at times, a lot of experience has been lost in the race to flat, in addition to lowered affordability of modern UIs.

One bug: Firefox on Linux introduces an extra dotted rectangle on focused buttons (so they end up with two oddly overlapping focus indicators)

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1. zozbot234 ◴[22 Apr 20 03:54 UTC] No.22941948[source]▶
There are a few extra bugs: one should be able to style a 'default' button with an extra black border giving it a lightly "inset" appearance, as is usual in this style. And "disabled" buttons shouldn't react to a click by changing their appearance. It would also be nice to support tristate checkbox and radio buttons (the "3rd" state is basically a selection with lowered contrast, so this should be achievable) and "ON/OFF switch"-like controls, which appear as "sticky" buttons where the ON state also has a lighter background.