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Some Windows Vista designer is shedding a tear right now. Got such a huge nostalgia hit watching the "liquid glass" demos during the keynote. Installing a leake
by paxys 1y ago
Some Windows Vista designer is shedding a tear right now. Got such a huge nostalgia hit watching the "liquid glass" demos during the keynote. Installing a leaked "Longhorn" OS on a PC back in 2005 and seeing all the translucent refractive glass really felt magical and futuristic. 20 years later, everything old is new again.
- timeon 1y agoMy nostalgia with glass goes bit further to KDE 2 or 3.
- Apocryphon 1y agoSomeone at Apple shared a video about Frutiger Aero
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- bitwize 1y agoThat's exactly what I thought. Look, they invented Windows Aero. Bet the John Gruber types who laughed at Aero and called it an Aqua ripoff are going full "two soyjaks pointing meme" over this.
- detourdog 1y agoWas Aero trying to look like Quartz? The big improvement I see is that the plumbing has better integration and with Continuity it's really impressive. Even if it looks like Aero the functionality the OS is providing is the real feature.
- bitwize 1y agoAero wasn't trying to look like Aqua. Steve Jobs would have launched a devastating hypercombo of legal action if it were. But it was clearly a response to Aqua: use 3D acceleration to provide fancy effects and shiny widgets. The previous release, Windows XP, still did everything with lines, solid-fill rects, and blitted bitmaps and was starting to look long in the tooth compared to Mac OS X.
- detourdog 1y agoI stopped working with windows after 3.11, NT4. I was referring to the transparency/layer aspects.
- sumtechguy 1y agoThe 'win32' way, layers. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/window-features#layered-windows https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winmsg/windo...