Why I'm hesitating to switch to D

Adam D. Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Wed Jun 29 07:18:42 PDT 2011


James Fisher wrote:
> I have no experience with DDOC, but TBH I don't intend to ever have any.

The beauty of ddoc is you don't need experience with it.

/**
      this is ddoc

      yes just this
*/


My biggest criticism of it is trivial to fix, but I haven't found
the time yet.

That is, the std.ddoc that is used to build the main site outputs
presentational html instead of semantic html.


Just going through that and changing to more semantic tags - so
the automatically generated data from the ddoc back end is not lost
by the time it gets to html - would make a big difference.


Then you can more easily apply css or other xml transformations
to it.



Also as another note, the web pages really *aren't* written in
ddoc. Take a look at std.ddoc some day... it has plain HTML
for the main page structure.

If the content tags were more semantic, between css and that
plain html structure, boom, there's the stuff to attack for the web.
No need to think about ddoc at all.


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