Improved Phobos dox

[Gary Willoughby]

On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 07:53:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 07:14:15 UTC, Andrei 
> Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Check out the new navigation at 
>> http://erdani.com/d/phobos/std_array.html. The ugly "Jump to" 
>> list as the top gets replaced by a slick drop-down. Once you 
>> jump to a name, you can go back by pressing the up arrow on 
>> the right or simply go to top.
>
> I'm not sure this is an improvement, functionally. Finding the 
> right item in much faster when you can see all items at once, 
> and not lined up on only one direction. Also, Ctrl+F was more 
> likely to find the link to the correct item before than now 
> (and if you used your browser's inline search feature, then you 
> could activate that link by pressing Enter).
>
> I think some kind of outline would be more useful.
>
> What happened with Ddox? This looks like an improvement in both 
> function and aesthetics:
>
> http://vibed.org/temp/phobos/std/array.html

Agreed. Sorry Andrei but this is not an improvement for 
usability. It disables being able to search the index via page 
search (Ctrl-F). Also i thought combobox navigation died out in 
the 90's!?

Seriously though, the navigation needs to be available no matter 
where you are on the page. For me this is a huge step backwards, 
you've effectively hidden the navigation and introduced a 
dependency on javascript.

Is there any chance some money can be spent to employ a good web 
developer to develop a nice user friendly site? IMHO the website 
really lets D down and to be honest looks very amateurish.