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The Why of Lisa G. U. I. (yaros.ae)
4 points by andrew 3 days ago | 4 comments


  • Rochus 2 days ago
    This DOS looking blog is amazing, also the CSS based Lisa GUI. A true expert at work. Impressive.
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    • andrew 2 days ago
      Thank you. Although LisaGUI is JavaScript-based - only the prototypes were heavily reliant on CSS. I have a feeling people aren't reading my blog post all the way through. :( I'm rewriting a couple parts to better clarify this...
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      • bmonkey325 2 days ago
        I probably missed in my read. What source material did you use to verify your Lisa implementation. Emulator? Rare pristine Lisa in your den ?

        LisaGUI seems really faithful. Getting it to mimic the Lisa seems hard. Like really hard.

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        • andrew 2 days ago
          Thanks.

          I have both - LisaEm has been invaluable, and I also have a Lisa I can refer to in cases where LisaEm isn't perfect.

          It's not 100% faithful - I describe some of the differences here: https://lisagui.com/info.html For the features I've added or changed, I tried to use the same UI conventions and principles found in the Lisa Office System (or early versions of Mac OS if LOS has no precedent).

          It's not so much that it's "hard" as it was time consuming to write so much of it from scratch.

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