Redesign of dlang.org

[Aleksandar Ruzicic via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 19 April 2014 at 21:49:20 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On 4/19/2014 7:48 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:40:32 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> [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?
>
> I get "This site is asking to store data on your computer for 
> offline use".
>
> I always decline that sort of thing. Aside from games (which 
> really belong outside the browser anyway), anything that can't 
> be handled via a normal session cookie is questionable and 
> doesn't belong on my computer.

They use it to remember your selection of languages/frameworks if 
I'm not mistaken.

That can surely be stored in a Cookie, but I also prefer 
localStorage, mostly for performance reasons (cookies get sent on 
*every* request, unless you setup subdomain just for that type of 
cookies) and for the fact that cookies are the worst thing ever 
happened to HTTP :)