Re:Windows93
by II2II on Monday March 02, 2020 @01:18PM
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There were things that people called animated windows and animated icons at the time, but the meaning was quite different from what we think about today. For example: an animated window was an animation effect on the frame when a window was opened or closed, while an animated icon could be showing one icon for a closed folder and another icon for an open folder. (These recollections are from 1995 era OS/2. Windows had it's own stuff going on, but I pretty much ignored it from the introduction of Windows 95 until late Windows XP.)
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That's not what "Windows 93" (the site posted) is doing though. However I do take your point about the window borders, I had forgotten that was referred to as "window animations".
I don't agree with your icon point though. I don't recall anyone calling those boolean icon states as "animated".