A CSS framework for recreating Windows 7 UI

I used this in a newtab extension that I created! https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/xp-newtab/ncfmlogae...

The "Glass frame & color" section brings Firefox to a crawl on my desktop. Chrome seems to handle it better.

This is beautiful. I saw the note the author did it to learn some tech skills -- kudos both for that kind of project and for sharing it.

I have a single suggestion: _Centering._

Text is not vertically centered in buttons, nor against checkboxes or radio buttons, nor the window title bar (I think?) or tabs or... In each, it's a couple of pixels too high. Similarly the +/- symbols aren't centered in the treeview squares. This is _not_ easy to solve: https://tonsky.me/blog/centering/ but would move the stylesheet to being a truly impressive mimic of Windows 7.

Show HN: from the author in 2021

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25601650

Love it, this is so much better than that FluentUI or whatever new Google Chrome UI is trying to do with their huge padding.

Amazing. So much nostalgia. Love the frosted glass/Windows Aero stuff.

I have never wished Windows used CSS for theming so much...

Well done, I seriously thought that window in the "Intro" section was a screenshot.