http://d-programming-language.org/ 404 & small proposal

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:04:22 -0500, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej at none.net>  
wrote:

> The D website is 404'ing for the library page:
>
> http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/phobos.html
>
> And I've had an idea to make the documentation website a little easier  
> to navigate. Here's what the docs look like with their old design:
>
> http://imgur.com/8Vdrj.jpg
>
> Now, that's quite a mess to look at. The text isn't aligned or anything  
> so it doesn't look that good, and you can't really tell which of those  
> names are functions, class definitions or enums, etc.
>
> So I just quickly sketched out what I'd like to see instead:
>
> http://imgur.com/0lufR.jpg
>
> Disregard the off coloring, font sizes, and my general lack of design  
> skills please :). The main point is to put the links in a table so  
> they're aligned and easier to browse, and maybe even categorize all the  
> names by their type (functions/enums/etc).
>
> I'm pretty sure adding a table is trivial, but I don't know if we can  
> automatically categorize all the names and put them in separate tables.
>
> Thoughts?

Yes please.

Note that if you want to work on the doc, the entire D website is  
generated by ddoc from the phobos repository.  So you can experiment with  
different things directly by editing the source.

-Steve