Redesign of dlang.org

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On Tuesday, 22 April 2014 at 20:01:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 4/22/14, 3:32 AM, Kagamin wrote:
>>
>> What's problem with entire page width? I don't remember 
>> difficulty
>> reading w3c docs or gcc docs or linux man pages even when they 
>> occupy
>> the entire page width.
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=page%20width%20study#q=optimal+page+width+for+reading&safe=off
>

As I have already pointed out, there is no optimal width. E.g. if 
you have 3 lines per paragraph you can have longer lines. If you 
have 20 lines per paragrap you need shorter ones. So why are you 
doing this? Trying to be clever? Obviously not.

Kagamin meant "window width". Clearly if the user can adjust his 
window he can get the desired text width. Only after two decades 
of academics pointing out a need for flexible width do web 
designers get it and start chanting for "responsive design". Not 
because they actually understand what they are doing, but because 
they were FORCED to leave their ugly fixed width obsession by the 
introduction of mobile devices.

Too many documentation sites still get this wrong, meaning: they 
don't work properly if the user sets a larger font or uses his 
own stylesheets.

This is the proper link:

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/

(You ARE flame baiting, right? I think you owe Kagamin an 
apology.)