[HN Gopher] System.css: A design system for building retro Apple... ___________________________________________________________________ System.css: A design system for building retro Apple interfaces Author : surrTurr Score : 111 points Date : 2022-08-11 18:29 UTC (4 hours ago) (HTM) web link (sakofchit.github.io) (TXT) w3m dump (sakofchit.github.io) | divbzero wrote: | When I look at this I can't help thinking that desktop UX reached | its peak (or plateau?) three decades ago. What improvements have | there been since System 6? Perhaps multiple desktops, tabs, and | universal search (e.g. Spotlight) but those improvements feel | more incremental than fundamental. | thih9 wrote: | > What improvements have there been since System 6 | | I can use touch gestures, scroll intuitively or swipe between | recently active websites or apps on my iOS device. | | I can work seamlessly on the same document using multiple | devices and/or with multiple people. | | (Web) UX advances let me view maps, browse apartment listings, | compare various kinds of products and order stuff online. | | Then again, not sure how much all that is worth since I still | use console for work. | bobthepanda wrote: | To be fair, they said _desktop_ OS, where touch is pretty | much irrelevant. | | Desktop OS has mostly been marked by innovations that didn't | really pan out even if they were interesting (e.g. Windows 8 | and the tile-based Metro UX) | jahewson wrote: | Why would you expect the fundamentals to change? Wouldn't that | be a bad sign? | [deleted] | duxup wrote: | Site is broken in Firefox on an iPhone. | dharmatva wrote: | Same - broken on Safari on an iPhone | stop50 wrote: | Both use the same engine. | _the_inflator wrote: | I love it! As great as the NES CSS framework: https://nostalgic- | css.github.io/NES.css/ | masswerk wrote: | Minor nitpick: labels for checkboxes and radio buttons should be | really in normal Geneva, not in Chicago. (Chicago appears in menu | bars, menus and titles only.) | smm11 wrote: | Still better than Windows. | senzilla wrote: | https://www.senzilla.io/software/nexus/ | | A classless CSS framework that makes content look like it would | have in the very first web browser - the Nexus browser. | metadat wrote: | If this were more robust across browsers I'd totally start using | it for my personal projects. Such a sweet throwback! | cush wrote: | Ironically, I can't get the menu to close on iOS safari. The | close button seems to be broken. | cjsawyer wrote: | In ios chrome putting it in landscape lets me see the content | past the unclosable window | gabereiser wrote: | Broken on mobile | swyx wrote: | I collect these novelty CSS things for fun! here | https://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy/blob/master/README.md#fun... | | - [NES.css](https://github.com/nostalgic-css/NES.css): NES.css is | a NES-style(8bit-like) CSS Framework. | | - [PSone.css](https://github.com/micah5/PSone.css): PS1 style CSS | Framework, inspired by NES.css. | | - [LaTeX.css](https://latex.now.sh/) | | - Operating System CSS - | [98.css](https://github.com/jdan/98.css): A Windows 98 inspired | framework for building faithful recreations of old UIs. | - [Office 97 clipart in svg | format](https://archive.org/details/mso97clipart) - | [XP.css](https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css): A Windows XP | inspired framework for building faithful recreations of operating | system GUIs. An extension of 98.css. - | [7.css](https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/) - | [System.css](https://sakofchit.github.io/system.css/) Retro | Apple-inspired UI - [Commodore 64 | CSS](http://pixelambacht.nl/2013/css3-c64/) - DOS: | [BOOTSTRA.386](https://github.com/kristopolous/BOOTSTRA.386): A | vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme | | - [Text UI CSS](https://github.com/vinibiavatti1/TuiCss): bios | like UI's | | - [New Dawn](https://github.com/npjg/new-dawn): A mac classic | After Dark inspired stylesheet. | | - [Geocities Bootstrap theme](https://code.divshot.com/geo- | bootstrap/) | | - more https://dev.to/iainfreestone/10-resources-for-recreating- | old... | simonmorg wrote: | This is awesome. I don't think i've bookmarked so many links in | one go. | purgedreality wrote: | Don't forget Puppertino for OSX! | https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino | | https://github.com/codedgar/Puppertino | dmitriid wrote: | "Based on MacOS HIG guidelines" ... uses links for buttons. | | Somehow this is even more aligned with Apple of today. | miohtama wrote: | For some reason, HackerNews does not render all the links | correctly in this comment | rassibassi wrote: | Nice, saw you also have a section on fonts! Think the following | could make you smile, too. Checkout this font that changes with | the users facial expression (shameless plug): | | Description: | https://danishdesignaward.com/en/arkiver/nominee/adam-lenzin... | | Demo: https://facetype3000.herokuapp.com | swyx wrote: | haha nice demo! needs a smoothing function, wobbles too much. | also i use an external cam, would be nice to pick cam source | miohtama wrote: | BIOS like UI is Turbo Vision framework | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Vision - one of the | earliest windowed application frameworks. Not _GUI_ framework, | obviously. Made by Borland and made famous by its IDEs like | Turbo C++ and Turbo Pascal. | | Nowadays available as open source: | https://github.com/magiblot/tvision | jakearmitage wrote: | Blurry on Firefox. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-11 23:00 UTC)