dmd 1.061 and 2.046 release

Nathan Tuggy bugzilla at nathan.tuggycomputer.com
Sun May 16 23:15:20 PDT 2010


On 2010-05-16 21:47, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright"<newshound1 at digitalmars.com>  wrote in message
> news:hsqhhg$fmq$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>>> 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.)
>>
>> Doing them as floating CSS makes it possible to "nodisplay" the navigation
>> sections when formatting for print.
>>
>
> Ahh, good point.
>
>> The whole HTML/CSS design is such a horrific kludge it's a wonder it works
>> at all.
>
> That's exactly how I feel about 99% of internet "technologies" (including
> HTML/CSS, of course). And they're all horrific kludges *on top* of horrific
> kludges - I almost wish I never learned how ethernet, *ahem*..."works". It's
> a wonder I have any sanity left.
>
>
>
There's this idea called "Worse is Better", which you've no doubt heard 
of... sometimes when I am feeling gloomy I agree with it wholeheartedly. ;-)

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