Please help me with improving dlang.org

[aldanor via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 18 January 2015 at 17:05:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 1/18/15 9:02 AM, aldanor wrote:
>> This is usually solved by media queries / responsive design / 
>> grid
>> frameworks, sorry if I'm stating the obvious :) Try resizing 
>> the
>> commonly used websites and see what happens, e.g. for 
>> ruby-lang you have
>> at least 3 "versions" which are selected automatically based 
>> on the
>> current viewport's settings which the browser provides:
>> http://imgur.com/a/gE38d
>>
>> E.g. the menus on the left getting folded into one mobile 
>> "button" which
>> expands them on demand and leaves more space for the actual 
>> content, or
>> some elements disappearing in smaller viewports altogether 
>> (like the
>> twitter feed div). This is quite a pain to manage manually 
>> without
>> having an underlying grid framework.
>
> My understanding is there are various simpler way to do this, 
> e.g. separate styles for small screen devices, redirection to a 
> different URL, setting "hidden" to certain DIVs dynamically 
> etc. etc. As you saying there's no way to do this unless we use 
> some grid framework I know nothing about and probably need to 
> learn? -- Andrei

And yet another thing you gain with (most) frameworks is having 
access to the original SASS/LESS. This essentially provides you 
with features like inheritance, mixins and default values for CSS 
which reduces the boilerplate and makes the whole thing much more 
manageable.