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> 7.css is a CSS framework for building interface components that look like Windows 7. It is built on top of the GUI backbone of XP.css, which is an extension of 98.css.

Just an absolutely lovely line of text.

Every time I see something about windows7 coming up, I feel a little sad. 7 imo was the last good windows ms came up with. I remember upgrading to it was something worth bragging to your friends in school. There was so much excitement around it. After 7, something felt, broken, new features felt unnecessary, things got more user hostile, the magic, it was just gone!

I wonder if this can be integrated with Electron and Tauri to provide native-looking user interfaces.

Combined with a theme-to-CSS convertor, imagine an Electron app looking like a Windows app on Windows, and a GTK app on Linux, while following the colours and styles of the custom theme the user has selected in their OS.

Unfortunately some of the elements aren't compatible with DarkReader.

Super cool. Anyone know if a similar library exists for Aqua?

And used by phishers to make you think you got a Windows prompt.

why nobody tries KDE or GNOME?

this is pretty cool, nice

Very nice. Does anybody else find it a bit striking how gracefully this look has aged? With a little bit of tuning it could feel pretty modern.

Modern UI design could stand to take not just a few pages but the majority of the book from both the Windows 7 variant of Aero and the OS X 10.9 variant of Aqua, in my opinion. Legibility, information density, and communication of interactability and widget function have all been lost as we’ve careened towards egregiously thick padding, low contrast, and low differentiation.

The checkboxes doesn’t look quite right on iOS

These visual elements have to be protected by intellectual property somehow. Has Microsoft ever legally persecuted these types of projects before? Or projects built upon such libraries?

I'd be wary to build on top of these clones only to receive a cease and desist, but that's a fear of mine, I don't know if it's founded.

This is awesome. I love that the readme contains pictures of everything.

this is pretty cool

The last dialog looks crazily realistic. Is it possible to distinguish it from a real OS dialog without trying to move it? It looks awfully practical for phishing.

Great work and idea! How can I use it without having tailwindcss changing all css?

its crazy how good this library and Windows 7 in general looks even today. nice framework

I wonder if the Microsoft "glass" look influenced the recent Apple work.

Ah yes the days of "aero ui". Sad to hear Apple designers are taking cues from _old_ windows designs now.