dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:hspj3m$1c9b$1 at digitalmars.com...
>
> People often say it doesn't look professional. I agree it could probably 
> use better colors, etc. But for this kind of web site, I think it's just 
> wrong to use flash, javascript, or anything that takes a long time to 
> load. I don't like pages that have a tiny bit of content surrounded by 
> acres of flashy, blinky, hovering advertisements. I don't like websites 
> that sacrifice readability in favor of a "look". I don't like web pages 
> that refuse to reflow if the window size is changed. The site should print 
> properly, and be mechanically convertible to a reasonably decent looking 
> pdf.
>
> The site needs to be friendly to search engines, and usable by screen 
> readers. Yes, there are blind programmers, and at least one blind D 
> programmer. It's obnoxious to make a site they cannot use.
>
> I'm also old, and just don't like sites that use small fonts, cute fonts, 
> blurry fonts, fonts with poor contrast, etc. They're hard, even painful, 
> to read. When I was a kid writing letters to my aged relatives, my mom 
> told me that they'd struggle to read typical handwriting, and that it's 
> nice to use a typewriter instead. I always remembered that advice, and 
> when I started using word processors for letters, the ones I'd send to 
> them I'd always enlarge the font quite a bit. Web sites should avoid 
> setting specific font sizes, so low vision users can enlarge it.
>

I agree a lot with most of this, but any web browser that doesn't scale 
so-called fixed-size fonts when zooming has a broken, archaic zoom function, 
period.


> I recently completed a revamp of the digitalmars site that got rid of the 
> table based layout in favor of using floating CSS layout. The result looks 
> a bit nicer, and the printing should be much better.
>

Speaking as a web developer, I've found that floating CSS is irritatingly 
gimped compared to tables when trying to adjust how things flow upon 
resizing. (Speaker as a web user, I've never cared one bit whether a site 
used floating CSS vs tables.)