working on the dlang.org website

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 at 13:19:12 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> There is nothing here D can't do. Dogfooding ftw.

hell, I've done my own versions of that stuff in D! Though most 
the similarities are actually coincidence since I've never 
actually used the Ruby stuff, there are a lot of similarities.

In the perhaps poorly named html.d in my github
https://github.com/adamdruppe/misc-stuff-including-D-programming-language-web-stuff


There's a macro expander thing that includes a css and javascript 
subclass. The javascript one is nothing special, it just adds a 
foreach macro to it. (Which is btw a text expansion macro, but 
hey it works for me fixes the biggest annoyance I have with that 
language.)

The really useful one comes with the expandAndDenest css one 
which translates stuff like

  .test {
     color: red;
     .bold { font-weight: bold; }
  }

into

  .test { color: red; }
  .test .bold { font-weight: bold; }


and has a bunch of macros you can define and use yourself for 
stuff like some color manipulation, reuse of declarations, and so 
on.




Of course, no framework for the site is required here, since you 
can always just convert the file ahead of time in the makefile 
and serve plain generated code to the website.