Redesign of dlang.org
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Apr 18 15:06:02 PDT 2014
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:40:32 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
wrote:
> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:10:03 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
>> On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> So, what do you guys think?
>>>
>> I _strongly_ suggest any proposed redesign retain the
>> left-justification seen in the current design. It improves
>> readability and gives opportunities for better information
>> density.
>>
>> I know centred, fixed-width designs are in vogue, but for a
>> documentation project, I would that the gutters instead be
>> turned to more useful purposes. Like documentation.
>>
>> -Wyatt
>
> I must respectfully disagree about retaining left justification.
> I have 27'' monitor with resolution of 2560x1440 and
> left-aligned websites are really hard to read!
>
> There is a reason why most editors have "zen mode" which
> centers your code on a screen. It's easier to read when it's
> centered and not too wide.
>
> Current design has no limitation on line width which (at my
> resolution) results in ~300 characters wide lines, and it's
> really unreadable.
>
> I would go for a maximum of 120 characters wide lines with
> content centered on larger monitors.
>
>
>
> -- Aleksandar
Or just a little switch in a corner somewhere to change the
justification, with a cookie.
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