D web site facelift

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

Walter Bright wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>> news:i0nula$bk7$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> I didn't see any of the glitchiness or google-translate stuff that 
>>>> other people saw (on IE7, FF2, or Iron). Although, from the 
>>>> screenshot someone else posted of the translate-bar, I'm glad it's 
>>>> not showing up for me. (I really wish people would stop loading up 
>>>> their pages with Google's crap.)
>>> I like the translate widget! I've always been enamored with the idea 
>>> of a universal translator.
>>
>> There are browser plugins and websites that can handle translation of 
>> *any* page, not just pages that the page author has manually embedded 
>> it into. And they do it without gunking up the page with unnecessary 
>> JS bloat that not everyone's going to need.
> 
> I understand your point, I just like to have it right there, and not 
> have to go get toolbars and plugins for every browser I use. Also, 
> nobody ever complained about it before - why now is it suddenly an issue?

The screen real estate allocated to translation is too large. You should 
move it to a less prominent place and make the font smaller. That goes 
about "discuss on wiki" - the font is too large!

Andrei