Comment by notepad0x90

14 hours ago

They say nostalgia is always deceptive, but I miss ~java2 era UX.

I don't think it was Java itself, but many operating systems simply had a much stronger set of UX that was cohesively being followed.

Yet here we are, in an era where you can encounter multiple choices and you don't know whether it's a single select versus a multi-select tick box. And then there's something with a boolean state, and it's not clear which color means it's currently active. Then you hit alt-F for the File menu order to quit your browser in frustration, but the web page blocks you because it has decided that means that you're going to "Favorite" whatever you're looking at.