Redesign of dlang.org

[anonymous via Digitalmars-d]

On 07.01.2016 10:02, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> About the "Your code here" box: I accidentally had your page and
> dlang.org side-by-side with the same "Round floating point numbers"
> example, only yours had the inline comments stripped.

Yeah, I also stripped some of its functionality (processing args instead 
of stdin), and I dropped the RPN calculator example entirely, because I 
couldn't get it down to acceptable size.

> I think the
> comments add a lot of value, and would advise to leave them in. I know
> this design looks bad when that box gets too high, and I think we would
> need a solution that allows examples with more lines without the length
> of the example affecting the layout of the page. Here are a few ideas
> (without knowing whether they would be doable or not):
>
>    1. Box with fixed height and a slider to scroll the contents.
>    2. Manually resizable box, much like the edit field in the online
> forums, with a slider when necessary.
>    3. Box clipped to a fixed height (possibly with fade-out effect at
> the bottom). It could be expanding dynamically on mouse-over. The
> buttons would probably be best to have at the top.
>    4. The drop-downs in the "Why D?" section work very well. Similarly,
> the box could be clipped as in 3 and expand on click. Encourage clicking
> on it by having a big "Play" button on it as you see on video's -- or
> something similar.

Thanks, the idea of making the example expandable somehow didn't occur 
to me.

However, my stance at the moment is that the intro examples should just 
be really short. The message is that you can do something useful or cool 
in just a couple lines of code. That means outright rejection of 
anything longer than, say, 20 lines, or maybe even just 15.