Redesign of dlang.org

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 21 December 2015 at 17:37:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> That's a large leap. I suggest using Ddoc instead of Sass 
> compact CSS files, see the existing instance at 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/blob/master/css/cssmenu.css.dd.

Why is there a $(COLON) macro in there? Is it because of the 
silly section feature of ddoc? Why does it matter at the bottom 
of the file but not in the rest of it?

Using text macros in CSS is something I support. Indeed, my css 
expander does them too, but most of ddoc's other features I fear 
are wrong like the colon thing, and it lacks stuff that is 
specifically useful in css itself like nested selectors. (BTW, 
your _=\n\n pattern is useless, it changes nothing and should be 
removed.)

While I do like using css helper programs... here, I'd prefer to 
just keep the file simple. Let's just write standard CSS, 
understanding that it has a few warts, but then getting the 
benefit of a very easy to understand file for anyone to look at, 
no need to build it, and the possibility of using standard css 
tools on it.

> CoffeeScript sounds like a nice thing to add and is from what 
> I've heard reasonably stable.

Please don't. Coffeescript has distinctly negative value to me, 
including complicating the build process even more, and just 
being a PITA to write.

Again, I'd prefer to keep the javascript files simple too, no 
processors on them. It's not like we need that much of it on this 
site anyway.