Redesign of dlang.org

Aleksandar Ruzicic via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 19 05:31:05 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 11:48:39 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:40:32 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic 
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> You can have the browser window centered on screen and have 
> your preferred width. It doesn't make sense to have wide window 
> if don't ever want anything that wide, then every site which 
> fits the window width automatically has your preferred width, 
> otherwise the designer would need to figure out everyone's 
> preferred width and accommodate for that, but how?

I like my browser window maximized, that's how I've been using it 
for more than 10 years. And I'm not the only one. For other 
windows (editor/chat/etc) I have two additional monitors.
It si true that it's impossible to satisfy all tastes but in my 
experience majority of websites nowadays are centered.

But, when I say centered I mean having a maximum width of say 
1200px, so that on most common resolutions it will be full-page 
website or it will be just slightly padded on both sides. Content 
would be left aligned, of course.

On resolutions larger than 1200px in width additions information 
could be provided (from both sides, so that content stays 
centered and thus in spotlight).


>> [1] http://devdocs.io/
>
> "Sorry, your browser is not supported". I would understand, if 
> it was an FPS web game, but what advanced technology a 
> documentation site absolutely can't live without?

Which browser do you use? I've used it only on Firefox (Aurora to 
be precise) and it works flawlessly.
That was just an example of how convenient is to have 
documentation filtered as you type. I'm not planning to make 
"devdoc for d", just to provide nearly instantaneously results as 
user types search query.


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