new documentation format for std.algorithm

[spir]

On 02/02/2011 04:58 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 2/2/11 6:47 AM, spir wrote:
>> On 02/02/2011 11:08 AM, bearophile wrote:
>>> BlazingWhitester:
>>>
>>>> It looks realy nice!
>>>
>>> I agree, it's a clear improvement.
>>>
>>>
>>>> But brief description table could use some spacing between
>>>> descriptions. It's a lilttle hard to read.
>>>
>>> Instead of that I suggest to give an alternating white - light cyan
>>> background to every adjacent group in the first table and every row in
>>> the second table. Like in this page:
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?renew=1
>>> Replacing<tr> with<tr bgcolor="#F9F9F9"> or<tr bgcolor="#EAF6FF">.
>>> In attach (I hope) a modified version for show.
>>
>> Should /not/ be done (*): a web-designer should no more impose
>> (background) colors to users, than font sizes or any other rendering
>> style element. And certainly not white backgrounds, please (make my eyes
>> cry). The site's design is supposed to just-work without any custom
>> style; proposed style is a 'plus'.
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> (*) Works not by me, anyway: I cannot stand white background, highly
>> painful after 1/4 hour. To avoid this, I set my own background color in
>> firefox (as well as other elements like fonts & sizes). Thus, your trick
>> is invisible by people like me.
>
> I guess this makes the alternating backgrounds tenuous. For now I added some
> subtle horizontal lines, let me know how that works.
>
> http://d-programming-language.org/cutting-edge/phobos/std_algorithm.html

Does the job. For a question of taste I don't like that at all, but indeed 
others may disagree. (I prefere slight vertical spacing.)

Denis
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