February 22, 2012
On 21/02/2012 11:43, James Miller wrote:
<snip>
> Its more, if you are using a font with a massive difference in size,
> then obviously things aren't going to look right. However, if a
> website require pixel-perfect rendering, then it isn't going to work
> anyway once it hits a platform that isn't the one the designer works
> on. I'm not advocating that websites should be rigid, more that
> complaining that the site doesn't work under /your/ specific settings
> is really not fair to the developer.

Exactly.  FWIW read this:
http://web.archive.org/web/20031231151206/http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Fix_the_wrong_problem

<snip>
>> I completely agree. And it's hell for you when you're forced to support IE because
>> more than 50% of the customers use IE.
<snip>

Indeed, if only M$ would retire IE the web would be a much better place.

Stewart.
February 22, 2012
"Stewart Gordon" <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:ji31ut$172j$1@digitalmars.com...
> On 21/02/2012 11:43, James Miller wrote:
> <snip>
>> Its more, if you are using a font with a massive difference in size, then obviously things aren't going to look right. However, if a website require pixel-perfect rendering, then it isn't going to work anyway once it hits a platform that isn't the one the designer works on. I'm not advocating that websites should be rigid, more that complaining that the site doesn't work under /your/ specific settings is really not fair to the developer.
>
> Exactly.  FWIW read this: http://web.archive.org/web/20031231151206/http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Fix_the_wrong_problem
>

OMG, I *LOVE* that page!!!

> <snip>
>>> I completely agree. And it's hell for you when you're forced to support
>>> IE because
>>> more than 50% of the customers use IE.
> <snip>
>
> Indeed, if only M$ would retire IE the web would be a much better place.
>

Meh, that would just mean all the millions of people who don't know what a "browser" is would just keep using the final version of IE. Actually, one could argue MS more or less tried retiring it at IE6, and that's exactly how it turned out.


February 22, 2012
On Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 15:26:45 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> Try saying that in court when you're sued for disability discrimination.

Tch... God damn America.

On Wednesday, 22 February 2012 at 15:34:54 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote:
> http://web.archive.org/web/20031231151206/http://allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Fix_the_wrong_problem

BTW, with recent browser technologies it's easier to keep frameset in sync and linkable, though MSDN shows that the huge navigation tree problem is solvable in a nice way, but it's so nice it's worth patenting, and another site with the same problem (DevExpress docs) doesn't adopt it, soooooo...
February 23, 2012
On 23 February 2012 04:26, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 21/02/2012 00:53, James Miller wrote:
> <snip>
>>
>> There are a potentially infinite number of possible configurations, and sites need to be aimed at the lowest-common denominator. Doesn't
>>
>> look right with an enlarged font size? Tough.
>
> <snip>
>
> Try saying that in court when you're sued for disability discrimination.
>
> Stewart.

Unless you prevent the user from using the site because of the font size, then it isn't discrimination. At any rate, most modern browsers have zoom functionality, that preserves the layout as best it can, while presenting a bigger view (even if chrome has removed that configuration setting, chromium still has it).
March 06, 2012
Now I like the forums. I am posting this message with the new interface.

I have three more suggestions:

1) When I read posts in the basic View mode, I often want to see the last posts of the thread. So I suggest to add the "Last >>" link at the top of the page too.

So maybe replacing this line:
View mode: basic / threaded / horizontal-split · Log in · Help

With:
View mode: basic / threaded / horizontal-split · Log in · Help · Last>>

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2) I sometimes copy & paste messages from the site to text documents for various purposes, to send them in emails, etc.

With the older system the copy was something like:

Subject 	Re: dereferencing null
From 	Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator@gmail.com>
Date 	Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:39:57 +0100
Newsgroups 	digitalmars.D

On Monday, 5 March 2012 at 03:24:32 UTC, Chad J wrote:
> News to me.  I've had bad runs with that back in the day, but
> maybe things have improved a bit.

Strangely, I've never had a problem with gdb and D,
.....


With the new system the copy is:


Re: dereferencing null
Adam D. Ruppe
Gravatar
Posted in reply to Chad J

Reply
	

On Monday, 5 March 2012 at 03:24:32 UTC, Chad J wrote:
> News to me.  I've had bad runs with that back in the day, but maybe things have improved a bit.

Strangely, I've never had a problem with gdb and D,
.....


So is it possible to improve this in some way, to give a better copy of the important information about the post?

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3) This is less important, but it's a simple thing. Regarding the page number links at the bottom of the page:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 …
- - - - -   - - -

Or:

… 7 8 9 10 11
  - -   -- --

There is plenty of space there, so I suggest something like this, that shows the last page number too:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 … 11
- - - - -   - - -   --

That becomes like this when you are in the middle of a sequence of many pages (and here I have added one more space between page numbers, to click better on them):

1  …  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  …  22
-     --  --  --      --  --  --     --

Bye and thank you,
bearophile
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