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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by specialist on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:49PM (#36689906)
Good OC. Thanks.

The Browser Software Era designs are idiomatic. They're based on (CD-ROM era) multimedia and adventure games, not desktop apps.

The earliest, most influential web designers had been doing multimedia. The earliest creation tools were tailored for them.

That aesthetic has been carried forward, for better or worse.

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by andai on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @11:12PM (#36690061)
Show me one site that still looks/feels like Flash.

(Actually, the more the merrier!)

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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by brirec on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @02:49AM (#36691185)
Flash is such a terrible choice for this analogy. Probably the one thing Flash sites all had in common was that they had nothing in common.
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Re:Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. C... by anthk on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @04:36AM (#36691862)
Multimedia and games were designed to be standalone, they interacted with themselves and that's it.

Browsers, OTOH, used to dsplay content to be copied and pasted everywhere. Nowadays there are silos everywhere, and interoperatibiity sucks.

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