Polishing D - suggestions and comments

[Daniel Lewis]

Walter,

I'm volunteering to head up a web development project to revamp the 'site, should you be interested.  I'm sure a shiny new website would certainly give D a toe up in the external appeal department.

I'm not running a web design firm.  I'm really not interested in advertising potential or the likes.  I'd just like to commit something I can be proud of back to the community; and I should probably do the same for Walnut later anyways.

I've been a web designer for the last 11 years, and I know most, if not all the tricks with CSS and AJAX and the rest.  I fact, that's how I got into programming.  I'm currently a Web Site Manager for one of the plethora of internal websites within Citi, and the only one I know of that's W3C standards conformant.  It's also WAI AA conformant, and implements some cutting edge stuff that I haven't seen other people on the web do such as: 

- keyboard accessible multi-tier horizontal-or-vertical suckerfish menus with the fix for the IE6 select box overlay bug.

- keyboard accessible toggle-able list-based suckerfish file tree generated from the file system.

- automatic user authentication and authorization using Active Directory; which is honestly limited to intranet applications.

- ajax SQL queries dumping into an embedded OWC excel spreadsheet.

I've attached screenshots from two previous iterations of my website for Citi to ease worries.

Regards,
Daniel Lewis

Unknown W. Brackets Wrote:
> I tried to stay away from the language, syntax, style, etc. for the most part.  There are things to talk about there, and plenty of opinions flying around.
> 
> Even if I were an expert on compiler design and theory, that's getting enough attention.
> 
> I'm more concerned about process.  Whether or not D has a pluggable GC or better interface design won't really prevent D from becoming a widely used language.  They are good things to think about and discuss, nonetheless.
> 
> C/C++, Perl, PHP, Java, all languages have design flaws.  But almost all of them have covered the issues I mentioned - or else they wouldn't have become well known languages.  I think that's the biggest issue for D right now.
> 
> -[Unknown]

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