cuteDoc -New DDOC theme

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Eric Poggel (JoeCoder)" <dnewsgroup2 at yage3d.net> wrote in message 
news:j8vets$2r3r$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 10/28/2011 5:18 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> and then use JS
>
> Where is Nick Sabalausky and what have you done to him?

Heh :)  The main problems I have with JS are:

- When it's *required* for stuff that's perfectly feasable without it.
- When there's so much JS that loading/using the page slows to a crawl.
- When it breaks forward/backward and linking/bookmarking (like on GitHub, 
for instance).
- Abusing JS for dumb/irritating things like pop-ups, pop-ins, excess 
animation (the rollout animation in cuteDoc is tastefully done though, I 
have no issues with that), etc.
- The syntax/semantics/api/etc of the JS language itself.

But I've never had a problem with a little bit of *optional* JS being used 
to streamline a few things here and there, a least for things that just 
can't be done without JS. Heck, even I use JS like that now and then. For 
example, the rollovers on this page: http://www.attentionworkout.com If JS 
is off (and this wasn't at all hard to do) it still works (You just have to 
click instead of rollover. It's possible to get *actual* rollovers with CSS 
alone, but in this specific case, I needed a rollover on one element to 
change a different element, and I couldn't figure out a CSS-only way to do 
that. If anyone knows if that's possible with CSS-only, I'd be glad to hear 
how. CSS is much better than JS for user-experience, but for a developer, 
sometimes CSS can be just as painful). And before anyone cringes: I didn't 
design that site, I only implemented it according to provided specs/mockups. 
And I *definitely* wouldn't normally have audio in a page, but this was 
intended to be usable by seniors in nursing homes. And I wouldn't normally 
use Flash to embed the audio, but the newer supposedly "good" browsers (like 
Chrome) completely crap out on audio embedded via normal, sensible means 
(ie, the <object> tag): Which always *used* to work just fine on everything 
until Google decided they owned the internet...Ok, now I'm ranting again, 
I'll stop... ;)