Redesign of dlang.org

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:25:10 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic 
wrote:
> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 15:30:52 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
>>
>> As the guy who was mostly responsible for the current look and 
>> feel of the website I can provide some insight into the effort 
>> required. The website is built using DDoc[1], and anyone who 
>> wants to change the look and feel will need to learn it. It's 
>> not difficult. It does mean that the site is static HTML, so 
>> any dynamism needs to be JS-only (and I think any efforts to 
>> make the pages largely JS-driven would meet resistance).
>
> I know about DDoc usage, I already know it and using it, so 
> that wouldn't be the issue.
> Regarding the dynamism, I would definitely go with some 
> JavaScript for
> the search feature (I want to provide real-time 
> filtering/suggestions something like DevDocs[1]) but I would 
> make it optional (so that search is still usable with JS 
> disabled/unavailable).

Phew...you narrowly avoided a Nick/Teoh JS rant there :P.

>> Also note that there's a movement to make at least part of the 
>> website (the Phobos docs) use a different documentation 
>> generator, so the new look would need to be ported to that 
>> too. I suspect that wouldn't be hard.
>
> I wasn't aware of that, do you by any chance have links to 
> those threads?
>

Here's one (they are kind of hard to Google now that the preview 
is up on the site and "ddox" appears on every page):
http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lfjcfm$2frn$1@digitalmars.com