dlang.org redesign n+2 (the one with the bold red vertical menu)

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 24 January 2015 at 11:36:58 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> The search "area" doesn't look good, especially the drop down. 
> For example it's not possible to style the arrow in the drop 
> down on Firefox. When you try to do that it falls back to some 
> style that looks like something from Windows 95 (I'm using OS 
> X).

Oh, I must have botched that. It works for me in Firefox and 
Chromium.

Just checked Firefox and IE on Windows. Firefox doesn't display 
the triangle, apparently missing the glyph. Should be possible to 
fix. IE refuses the arrow styling completely and shows its own 
thing, which is ok. Can't check OS X.

This is what it's supposed to look like: 
<http://i.imgur.com/70guZgC.png> (ignore the dark background in 
the logo).

> In general, don't style drop downs (including setting the 
> width) unless you completely replace them with something else, 
> like this [1].
>
> [1] http://silviomoreto.github.io/bootstrap-select/

That's basically a JS implementation of <select>, right? I'd 
prefer a CSS solution, if possible.

dlang.org actually got a nice CSS-only <select> lately. I had 
looked at the PR, and I think I pretty much took the 
implementation from it. So if the current one works, I'm 
confident mine can be fixed in CSS alone.