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I haven’t found any site, including this one, quite nailing the Windows 9x GUI. It is always a bit off, especially font rendering, but I can’t quite tell why.
by sebazzz 2y ago
I haven’t found any site, including this one, quite nailing the Windows 9x GUI. It is always a bit off, especially font rendering, but I can’t quite tell why.
- dist-epoch 2y agoIt's difficult to disable font anti-aliasing in the browser.
- fallingsquirrel 2y agoIt's nitpicky, but I'm the same way. In this version there's too much padding above/below the ? and X buttons in the title bar. If I ever win the lottery I'm going to live out my days building a GUI framework that looks like Windows 95, including unit tests that make sure the widget rendering is pixel-perfect.
- o11c 2y agoOne factor might be screen size. In 1998 it was typical to have 1024x768 monitors at about 72 DPI. Shortly afterwards, the whole world switched to a 96 DPI standard, at higher resolutions.