D forums now live! (page 2)

On 14.02.2012 23:00, Walter Bright wrote: > http://forum.dlang.org/ > > This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums. > > Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this! Nice! One suggestion for improvement: don't change the font size based on the browser window size. I'm not a web programmer, but I'm sure someone here can suggest a better way of setting the font size.

On Tuesday, 14 February 2012 at 22:00:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > http://forum.dlang.org/ > > This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums. > > Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this! Whoohoo! It is a fantastic interface. One issue I noticed though is that newlines don't seem to work: http://www.semitwist.com/download/img/shots/dforum.png (Posting this through the forum interface itself :) )

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 02:11:45 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > On Tuesday, 14 February 2012 at 22:00:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >> http://forum.dlang.org/ >> >> This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums. >> >> Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this! > > Whoohoo! > > It is a fantastic interface. > > One issue I noticed though is that newlines don't seem to work: > > http://www.semitwist.com/download/img/shots/dforum.png > > (Posting this through the forum interface itself :) ) This is an issue with Firefox. Andrej Mitrovic reported a similar problem with some dlang.org code examples.

On 2/14/12 4:31 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On reddit: > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ppre5/the_new_d_online_forum_software_written_in_d/ Wow. Just WOW. At 80% acceptance rate and a ton of positive comments, the link is a home run. Did Vladimir just wrote D's killer app? We must integrate everything generic enough in Phobos, pronto! Andrei

On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 04:00:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > > Wow. Just WOW. At 80% acceptance rate and a ton of positive comments, the link is a home run. Did Vladimir just wrote D's killer app? > > We must integrate everything generic enough in Phobos, pronto! > > > Andrei And the most talked feature is how super-fast and responsive the forum is. It's kinda nice.

On 2/14/2012 8:04 PM, Yao Gomez wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 04:00:38 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >> Wow. Just WOW. At 80% acceptance rate and a ton of positive comments, the link >> is a home run. Did Vladimir just wrote D's killer app? >> >> We must integrate everything generic enough in Phobos, pronto! >> >> >> Andrei > > And the most talked feature is how super-fast and responsive the forum is. It's > kinda nice. I couldn't have asked for a better set of reviews! And best of all, if anyone else wants to use Vladimir's software, they gotta use D! Queue D's patented time dilation technology.

On 2012-02-14 23:00, Walter Bright wrote: > http://forum.dlang.org/ > > This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums. > > Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this! That's great news. -- /Jacob Carlborg

February 15, 2012

Re: D forums now live!

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Vladimir Panteleev

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On Wednesday, 15 February 2012 at 00:33:29 UTC, torhu wrote:
> On 14.02.2012 23:00, Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://forum.dlang.org/
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>> This should replace the old miserable web interface to the forums.
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>> Thanks to Vladimir Panteleev for an awesome job writing this!
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> Nice! One suggestion for improvement:  don't change the font size based on the browser window size.  I'm not a web programmer, but I'm sure someone here can suggest a better way of setting the font size.

That's a tough one... This behavior is part of an effort to make the interface look good on any screen size. This doesn't include just PCs, but also mobile devices.

The advantage of the current approach is that it does not rely on JavaScript - it's completely CSS-based. It's not just the font size, either - the navigation column on the left is hidden if the viewport is not wide enough, and some other sizes are adjusted.

While I could use JavaScript to query the viewport window on load time and apply the adjustments only on page load, it'd have to mean relying on JavaScript, and you'd still see the font size change when you resize the window and click a link.

I don't think having a "font size" JavaScript widget is a better solution. It'd mean having one canned experience optimized for one device be the default for all devices. Detecting user-agents or other complicated logic is not something I wish to go down, either.

May I ask why you don't like the current behavior?

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