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LOL! Funny how doing something in 2020 takes ten times the resources for doing the same thing in 1995. Every pixel on these fonts is now a complex vector path.

heelix 6y ago
I could format my table layout with the font to make it pixel perfect, assuming a white on white color scheme. /s
- andai 6y ago
  The other day I discovered https://favicon.cc https://favicon.cc, "in beta" since 2007. Instead of canvas it uses a html table for drawing (as well as the 1:1 preview!)
  - notRobot 6y ago
    HTTPS is broken on non-www site. Try https://www.favicon.cc https://www.favicon.cc
  - swiley 6y ago
    Opening that on my iPhone redirects through some weird file:// URI. Is that normal for sites with self signed certs?
  - aasasd 6y ago
    I mean, I slapped together a table-based image renderer back around '04—the result was bloated but iirc could be displayed in Links.
Stratoscope 6y ago
> ten times the resources for doing the same thing Is it really ten times the resources, and really doing the same thing? My computer today uses much less power than what I had in the '90s, and cost less too. It has an internal 4K display and two external 4K displays. My '90s computer had a single 1280x1024 CRT where I always had to tweak the focus and alignment to get readable text. With no GPU, scrolling in an editor was always an exercise in patience, watching the text repaint line by line. Today all my monitors are high-DPI, everything scrolls instantly, and those vector fonts are what allow for crisp, detailed, and readable text on each display. Don't get me wrong, I think this '90s font site is a wonderful exercise in nostalgia and CSS ingenuity and is very cool! But you couldn't get me to go back to those days.
- nullc 6y ago
  > My '90s computer had a single 1280x1024 CRT where I always had to tweak the focus and alignment to get readable text. With no GPU, scrolling in an editor was always an exercise in patience, watching the text repaint line by line. I don't intend to insult, but to me this came across to me as a kid larping as someone who used computers in the 90s. Computers have improved by hardly imaginable magnitudes, but latency and interactive responsiveness for simple tasks like text editing is not generally one of them. Whenever I go into the attic to dig out a really old machine to pull something off it, I am immediately struck by how much more responsive the interface is compared to current systems. I respect that your experience is different but I can't figure out how that could possibly be.
  - asveikau 6y ago
    I remember text editing UIs struggling when the machine was otherwise overloaded. Although that started happening much more when text editors started to be written in garbage collected languages more often, which I put in the current century. I still get that today if I use an old machine and/or a fancy text editor.
    - adrianN 6y ago
      I regularly experience typing lag in Slack on a modern Macbook Pro.
    - titzer 6y ago
      Emacs is largely written in e-lisp. Does it have problems with lag? I don't think so. I think what made (makes) those editors laggy is a heavyweight representation of text and a creating a lot of garbage when processing said text.
    - zwaps 6y ago
      Well at least this retro experience is back with Javascript laden apps, that feel like they pull ui elements from a 56k connection
    - wbl 6y ago

heelix 6y ago

I could format my table layout with the font to make it pixel perfect, assuming a white on white color scheme. /s

andai 6y ago
The other day I discovered https://favicon.cc https://favicon.cc, "in beta" since 2007. Instead of canvas it uses a html table for drawing (as well as the 1:1 preview!)
- notRobot 6y ago
  HTTPS is broken on non-www site. Try https://www.favicon.cc https://www.favicon.cc
- swiley 6y ago
  Opening that on my iPhone redirects through some weird file:// URI. Is that normal for sites with self signed certs?
- aasasd 6y ago
  I mean, I slapped together a table-based image renderer back around '04—the result was bloated but iirc could be displayed in Links.

Stratoscope 6y ago

> ten times the resources for doing the same thing Is it really ten times the resources, and really doing the same thing? My computer today uses much less power than what I had in the '90s, and cost less too. It has an internal 4K display and two external 4K displays. My '90s computer had a single 1280x1024 CRT where I always had to tweak the focus and alignment to get readable text. With no GPU, scrolling in an editor was always an exercise in patience, watching the text repaint line by line. Today all my monitors are high-DPI, everything scrolls instantly, and those vector fonts are what allow for crisp, detailed, and readable text on each display. Don't get me wrong, I think this '90s font site is a wonderful exercise in nostalgia and CSS ingenuity and is very cool! But you couldn't get me to go back to those days.

nullc 6y ago
> My '90s computer had a single 1280x1024 CRT where I always had to tweak the focus and alignment to get readable text. With no GPU, scrolling in an editor was always an exercise in patience, watching the text repaint line by line. I don't intend to insult, but to me this came across to me as a kid larping as someone who used computers in the 90s. Computers have improved by hardly imaginable magnitudes, but latency and interactive responsiveness for simple tasks like text editing is not generally one of them. Whenever I go into the attic to dig out a really old machine to pull something off it, I am immediately struck by how much more responsive the interface is compared to current systems. I respect that your experience is different but I can't figure out how that could possibly be.
- asveikau 6y ago
  I remember text editing UIs struggling when the machine was otherwise overloaded. Although that started happening much more when text editors started to be written in garbage collected languages more often, which I put in the current century. I still get that today if I use an old machine and/or a fancy text editor.
  - adrianN 6y ago
    I regularly experience typing lag in Slack on a modern Macbook Pro.
  - titzer 6y ago
    Emacs is largely written in e-lisp. Does it have problems with lag? I don't think so. I think what made (makes) those editors laggy is a heavyweight representation of text and a creating a lot of garbage when processing said text.
  - zwaps 6y ago
    Well at least this retro experience is back with Javascript laden apps, that feel like they pull ui elements from a 56k connection
  - wbl 6y ago