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A lot of oldest GUIs were flat by hw limitations (often 1bpp displays) and they absolutely didn't dictate borderless. Sometimes there wasn't an "always on" bord
by p_l 2y ago
A lot of oldest GUIs were flat by hw limitations (often 1bpp displays) and they absolutely didn't dictate borderless. Sometimes there wasn't an "always on" border, but a border would show up when your mouse was over a clickable element, sometimes there was a border. Activation of UI element was often done by swapping foreground and background colour, something that was immediately visible.
- em_te 2y agoI think windows were flat on Windows 3.1 too and only adopted the 3D raised borders starting with Windows 95.
- p_l 2y agoWindows 3.0 brought "3d" styling to windows, actually - where available at least. Windows 2.0 had some simple shading or rather "complex borders" if you had colour display, but nowhere close to 3D shading of 3.0