new documentation format for std.algorithm

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 2/2/11 7:00 AM, spir wrote:
> On 02/02/2011 12:24 PM, Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> On Wed, 02 Feb 2011 14:06:11 +0300, Magnus Lie Hetland
>> <magnus at hetland.org> wrote:
>>
>>> I think perhaps some adjustments could be made to the layout, to make
>>> it more
>>> suitable to narrow(ish) browser windows (c.f., the discussio about 80
>>> columns
>>> -- without starting a huge thread like that again ;)
>>>
>>> For one thing, in narrow(ish) columns, ragged-right might be
>>> preferable. Then
>>> again, it may be that the way it looks on my end isn't what's intended:
>>>
>>> http://www.idi.ntnu.no/~mlh/images/std-alg-docs.png
>>>
>>
>> Left menu, Category and Function Name tables do take up about 800
>> pixels in
>> width, leaving very little space for Description on small resolution
>> displays,
>> mostly because of the large font size used and identifiers as long as
>> "largestPartialIntersectionWeighted".
>>
>> While there is little we can do with identifier names, I believe font
>> size
>> could be reduced by about 30% without sacrificing readability. At
>> least in
>> Opera the page looks well even at 70% scale.
>
> (Absolute) font size does not belong to the page designer, instead to
> the user. Just press dedicated key binding (often ctrl-), or whatever
> command to set it appropriately.

I'm not sure about that. Facebook's site is professionally designed and 
I think they use fixed font sizes all over the place.

Andrei