It's hard to justify Tahoe icons

https://tonsky.me/blog/tahoe-icons/

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11 Comments

Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 16 pts · 231d (7 replies)

I love how that page adds snowfall over itself... Cluttered, distracting snowfall.

Irony is dead... Long live irony

kibiz0r@midwest.social · 9 pts · 231d

No fun allowed

Fontasia@feddit.nl · 6 pts · 231d (2 replies)

They also use a snowflake icon for light\dark mode rather than, you know, toggling the distracting falling element.

But, the article does bring up a lot of a valid points

dev_null@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 231d (1 reply)

It does toggle it. But they don't disappear, just new ones stop falling in, so the existing snowflakes still need some time to exit the screen.

Fontasia@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 230d

Ah I was just being impatient. I'm not saying it's not a well done effect, it just seems a little pointless and not ideal in a blog talking about design

jqubed@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 230d

It’s the kind of thing I was doing in the late ’90s with DHTML, copying random scripts off websites like Dynamic Drive

troybot@midwest.social · 3 pts · 230d (1 reply)

To their credit there is a button in the top navigation menu that turns off the snow.

...Also there's a night mode button but it completely hides the entire page except for a spotlight you control by clicking around? Interesting feature but I'm not sure I understanding it.

Deebster@programming.dev · 1 pts · 230d

I think it's a joke about (or rather, a dig at) night mode. I'd seen the blog and that "dark mode" on a previous post about syntax highlighting where he'd mentioned he preferred light mode.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 231d (1 reply)

The original Mac OS human interface guidelines are full of great stuff like this.

velindora@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 230d

We should return to skeuomorphism.

Sidhean@piefed.social · 3 pts · 230d

Is soot supposed to be pouring off the top of the screen? Thats awful.