New look & feel for std.algorithm

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Mon Apr 4 10:35:09 PDT 2011


On 4/4/11 12:24 PM, Ary Manzana wrote:
> On 4/4/11 2:58 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://d-programming-language.org/phobos-prerelease/std_algorithm.html
>
> It looks nice, but I think the font is very hard to read. For example I
> can hardly read the function listing at the top. Compare this:
>
> http://d-programming-language.org/phobos-prerelease/std_algorithm.html
>
> To this:
>
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Enumerable.html

Could you please post two screenshots so I can see what you see? Thanks!

> (note that it's *not* because I like ruby, it's just that I find the
> second one much more readable).
>
> Also notice in the documentation in Ruby each function/method has a gray
> header that clearly shows where a function starts and ends. Apparently
> in the documentation for D no style is applied to the function/method at
> all, making it hard to distinguish from its description.
>
> So comparing the two sites, in Ruby I can see:
> * The module description is clearly separated from everything else (a
> gray rectangle with the text)
> * *Then* comes the method listing in a nice and readble font
> * The come the functions, each one having a well distinguished header
>
> In the D site I can see a waterfall of text, it's very hard to note the
> structure at all.

That's a very good point. I'll look into that, and will ask David 
Gileadi for help too.


Andrei


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