Redesign of dlang.org

[Aleksandar Ruzicic via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 09:40:53 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:40:32 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic 
> wrote:
>>
>> I have 27'' monitor with resolution of 2560x1440 and
>
> Yeah, me too...
>
>> left-aligned websites are really hard to read!
>>
> ...so I have no idea what you're even talking about with this 
> statement.

I have by browser's window maximized and websites with lot of 
text that are left-aligned are (to me at least) hard to read as I 
need to move focus from center of the monitor to the left edge, 
and staring at the angle like that for some time makes my eyes 
hurt..


>> 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.
>>
> "most"? I have literally never seen this on any editor ever.  
> But that's beside the point.

Sublime Text has this, it's called distraction free mode, there 
was extension for Komodo IDE too, but I haven't used it for years.


>> Current design has no limitation on line width which (at my 
>> resolution) results in ~300 characters wide lines, and it's 
>> really unreadable.
>>
> To be clear, I'm not favouring unreadable CPL.  I'm 
> specifically against the useless gutters to the left and right 
> that, alone, are each too narrow to be particularly useful.  
> Never mind that they account for roughly half of my screen 
> area.  I'm not inclined to support any design with that much 
> wasted space.

I'll try to use as much space as possible. I've said in one of 
previous messages that extra screen space can (and will) be used 
for displaying additional content.

> Oddly enough, Wikipedia's main page gets this right: 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Though I admit it 
> doesn't degrade gracefully to more narrow dimensions).

Yeah, Wikipedia looks good on wide monitors but as you said it's 
multi-column layout doesn't scale well.

> If proper aspect ratios hadn't been killed by cheapskate panel 
> manufacturers, we probably wouldn't even be having this 
> discussion.
>
> -Wyatt

Agreed. :)