wait mr webmaster, how did you get the scrollbar to work on firefox? did they finally add scrollbar styling support or is it a div?
I think designing the Microsoft Agents (clippy, merlin, bonsi buddy...) has been the most challenging endeavor in that it's really hard to make something friendly and helpful without being incredibly obnoxious. I see why Clippy got so much hate after all these years.
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kirbydogs
3 months ago
I have an idea! Remove Clippy, and instead make a weird shape that looks like perfectly bent wax paper with a gradient on it, and put it in EVERY app, not just the office ones! Give it a robot mind, too, so that it'll know how to stop you from accessing sites that aren't "Microsoft Internet Explorer"
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I feel guilty that I’m only discovering your site now?? I can’t even describe how marvellous it is, the nostalgia hit like a brick. I like modern interfaces/OSes just as well, but this was my most favourite version of windows, and I can’t believe it can be relived to this degree just by visiting your site.
rini
3 months ago
I’m so sorry in case you’d followed me a while ago, I try to keep up by at least paying a visit back, but I miss people a lot :(
win1999
3 months ago
Aw! Thanks :)) Glad you enjoy it. Big updates coming up, if we can get all the bugs squashed!
Prepare for the new millenium! Have fun in 1999 and beyond... okay i love this
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"i just spent an hour listening to MIDIs of pixies songs". wow, incredible. I have to sneak some onto w99 now. Gouge Away and Velouria are epic on midi
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I really enjoy your writing, and the various ways you've presented your website. In particular I find the typeface, Solway, really soothing and meets the personality well. Thanks for sharing :)
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rini
3 months ago
Thank you so much for your thoughts, I'm really flattered. And I felt the same about the typeface, glad you shared the sentiment!
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That chessbot is tough yeesh
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Thanks for the follow :)
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amaxivermis
3 months ago
You're welcome, I love your website it's really cool! I'd like to update my website to be desktop style soon
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oh wait it's a div... tell me how to make it make it like a guide you can find on IE
firefox still doesn't have proper scrollbar styling. it's a div, or more precisely, a JavaScript-driven fake scrollbar layered over a hidden native one. Still paranoid I didnt migrate all of the bars over and I forgot some dusty neglected app somewhere in the depths...
the core of the system is win98-scrollbar.js, a library that attaches custom scrollbar elements any scrollable div. The actual scrollbar is hidden via scrollbar-width: none (firefox) and ::-webkit-scrollbar { display: none } (chrome/safari). the Win98-style track, thumb, and arrow buttons are rendered as absolutely-positioned DOM elements that mirror the scroll state of the container.
OverlayScrollbars (similar to SimpleBar) was originally an option as well. But you're welcome to use win98-scrollbar.js - although it assumes certain DOM patterns, the two-div split for inset borders, portal dropdown handling, etc