dlang.org should do it in style

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 17 14:36:03 PST 2015


On 1/17/15 2:24 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 08:04:56PM +0000, MattCoder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Saturday, 17 January 2015 at 19:35:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> A tested PR would be great. Who can take this? -- Andrei
>>
>> A last note about this: using "width:1024px"  will fix the mobile
>> "wrap-text" problem, but the site will look like this on higher
>> resolutions: http://i.imgur.com/MZSmn87.png  (Look the space on the
>> left and right).
>>
>> So another solution would trying to set "min-width:1024px" on body
>> tag, so the site will continue to be the same as is today even on
>> higher resolutions, and I'm pretty sure this will correct the problem
>> above on mobile devices. If anyone change I'd be glad to test.
>>
>> PS: I'm assuming 1024 pixels because it's used as minimum standard
>> these days.
> [...]
>
> I rather that we use font-based metrics (e.g. 40em) instead of pixel
> sizes. That way the layout won't break or look horrible if the user
> changes the default font sizes (e.g. for special needs, etc.) or doesn't
> maximize his browser window.
>
> But that's just my opinion.
>
> Also, I am skeptical of a single style that will work for both desktop
> and mobile browsers. Isn't that what mobile stylesheets are for? We can
> have the same content, but we shouldn't break the desktop layout or make
> it look laughably spaced out just for the sake of mobile devices. Let
> the mobile devices have their own stylesheet.

Could you please run some experiments and see where they take us? -- Andrei



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