Re:Windows 2000 CSS Theme
by userbinator on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @01:23AM
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In a few years UIs will hopefully start looking like this again, as it's a good balance between the current ultra-flat trend and the previous "gradients and transparency everywhere" of Vista/7. The same sort of cycle appears earlier if you look at Win1.x/2.x(flat) -> 3.x(exaggerated 3D) -> 4.x/9x/2k(more subtle 3D) -> XP(pseudorealistic 3D, bitmapped UI) -> Vista/7(extravagant 3D) -> 8/10(flat). Whether the rest of the software will be less user-hostile, however, is still quite uncertain...
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Re:Windows 2000 CSS Theme
by themodelplumber on Tuesday November 10, 2015 @02:15AM
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That'd be awesome. Heck after a lot of mobile use recently I've decided I'd be willing to start using a stylus instead of my finger again so that some of those gigantic [ w h i t e s p a c e ] buttons could give way to tight groups of actually helpful buttons.