Website message overhaul

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 11/14/11 12:09 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:01:49 +0200, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:
>
>> After looking through the top answers I inferred that the percentage
>> is around 2% and declining.
>
> This is a bad measurement. Technically-inclined people are more likely
> to fine-tune their web browsing experience. The best metrics would be of
> d-p-l.org visitors.
>
> However, making the website accessible without JS is so easy, it's not
> really worth arguing about.
>
> Reminder: there are people in this community (myself included) who have
> web programming experience and would gladly help out. Don't be afraid to
> ask.

By this I am asking. Let's do this - finish this pass, and then make 
sure things work properly without javascript. From what I understand 
that's not difficult.

>> You'd probably see it if you enabled javascript. The idea is that
>> streaming Twitter news adds dynamism to the page, which encourages
>> repeat visits. I don't see anything wrong with using such a technology
>> to keep people informed. We're not in the business of creating news
>> aggregators.
>
> Speaking of which, the twitter widget needs to be placed in an iframe so
> that it doesn't block the page load (inline scripts cause browsers to
> stop parsing the page until the script is loaded and executed, which
> creates a network dependency on a website we don't control).

Yah, good point. That raises additional issues but probably needs to be 
done at some point.


Andrei