The History of Themeable User Interfaces A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time

📙 📗 📘 📕 The History of Themeable User Interfaces: bradfrost.com/blog/post/th...

It was an incredible experience to write this piece. It blurs together the history of computers, video games, the web, design systems, and my own existence on this planet.

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I'm not seeking it, but if I'm elected to be the next Pope, I will ban React and React Native as Thomas Aquinas wanted, immediately port Gecko and Blink to iOS so that PWAs work properly, and require Microsoft to stop all dark patterns. Hallelujah, me!

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