A History of Menus Is a Menu of History

(pudding.cool)

51 points | by surprisetalk 2 days ago

6 comments

  • groos 6 hours ago
    How many people visited the site expecting program UI menus?
    • netsharc 4 hours ago
      My pet peeve about UI menus is how in Windows it has to start with "File".

      Want to exit? File -> Exit. Oh, logical.

      Why can't they be sane and called it "Program"? Want to change preferences? Program -> Preferences instead of going "if you want to change the preferences, you will be wanting to 'edit the preferences', so it's under Edit. Where Cut, Copy, Paste belong. Logical, no?"

      Want to exit? Program -> Exit instead of File -> Exit.

      Rant over.

      • ArekDymalski 5 hours ago
        At least 2 of us :)
      • netsharc 4 hours ago
        Changing .swiper-wrapper { transition-property } from "transform" to "none" makes for a less obnoxious experience, it stops the text cards from flying left-to-right after every swipe (on a 1080p desktop monitor), my eyes were reflexively chasing the text.
        • nrightnour 6 hours ago
          This would be awesome if I knew what any of the menu items were!
          • geniium 5 hours ago
            So amazing to travel in time with style, congrats to the author
            • kibwen 8 hours ago
              The King's Arms Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, established in 1770, still serves historic items. It's cute to visit a restaurant's website where the menu reads like: "Soupe Another Way $8 — FIRSTLY, take great care that your soup-pots and covers are kept very clean inside and out. Lastly, for all brown and white soups cut the crust of a French roll in round or square pieces, and crisp them before the fire." https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/stay-play/dining/histor...
              • rimworld 2 days ago
                very cool thx for posting