alt Hacker NewsAck! It looks so… actionscript. Why does a UI look actionscript? I can’t even begin to imagine why it feels like that.
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chromakode • today at 6:23 PM
For me it's the gradients and dark gray backgrounds.
whalesalad • today at 7:38 PM
The verdana font and virtually every element is misaligned in some way
Haha, yes flex apps definitely had a feel to them!
It's easy to criticize but remember, this was back in the days of supporting IE6 and XHR was still relatively new!
Flex's standard UI library was filled with bluish-gray gradients and verdana :)
Here's an article which has a screenshot with a bunch of controls: https://daverupert.com/2023/02/the-case-for-flex-application...