Redesign of dlang.org

John Colvin via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 18 15:06:02 PDT 2014


On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:40:32 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic 
wrote:
> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:10:03 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
>> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, what do you guys think?
>>>
>> I _strongly_ suggest any proposed redesign retain the 
>> left-justification seen in the current design.  It improves 
>> readability and gives opportunities for better information 
>> density.
>>
>> I know centred, fixed-width designs are in vogue, but for a 
>> documentation project, I would that the gutters instead be 
>> turned to more useful purposes.  Like documentation.
>>
>> -Wyatt
>
> I must respectfully disagree about retaining left justification.
> I have 27'' monitor with resolution of 2560x1440 and 
> left-aligned websites are really hard to read!
>
> There is a reason why most editors have "zen mode" which 
> centers your code on a screen. It's easier to read when it's 
> centered and not too wide.
>
> Current design has no limitation on line width which (at my 
> resolution) results in ~300 characters wide lines, and it's 
> really unreadable.
>
> I would go for a maximum of 120 characters wide lines with 
> content centered on larger monitors.
>
>
>
> -- Aleksandar

Or just a little switch in a corner somewhere to change the 
justification, with a cookie.


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