Please help me with improving dlang.org

Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 18 10:31:41 PST 2015


"Mengu" <mengukagan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> 
> when not using a css framework like this, then the app for the mobile
> will consist of css and javascript hacks. and mostly one would lack the
> designers' and frontend developers' experience :)
> 
> if i may, i'll go and straightly ask a very great designer friend of mine
> to help us out. he'll either design a new interface for us or help us
> make this one better. let me know your call.

Give it a couple more weeks until I migrate more stuff to CSS, then ask
what it would take to improve the css. Thanks!


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