On 1/18/15 7:18 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 03:06:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 1/18/15 6:50 PM, DaveG wrote:
>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html
>> All - what do you think of dropping the background image and use the
>> DaveG's telluric background for menu?
>
> I like it, and also the resizing stuff covers what I did so if his
> changes go through, I can close my PR too. That's a win.

Wati, what resizing stuff? -- Andrei

On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 04:18:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Wati, what resizing stuff? -- Andrei

Resize the browser and the sidebars disappear when there's no longer enough room to reasonably fit them. It is important for readability on mobile so a really good thing to have (for the people who use the mobile browsers).

On 1/18/15 8:57 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 04:18:02 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Wati, what resizing stuff? -- Andrei
>
> Resize the browser and the sidebars disappear when there's no longer
> enough room to reasonably fit them. It is important for readability on
> mobile so a really good thing to have (for the people who use the mobile
> browsers).

Where is that implemented? Is there a pull request? -- Andrei

On 2015-01-19 03:22, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> OK, the current attempt has no gradient at all. Probably too flat? --

No, not really. But now the top menu item looks out of place. And the bottom border of the menu ... doesn't look right. I would guess you can just remove it.

Although I still like the old design better. But the collapsible menu might be a good idea.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-01-19 03:50, DaveG wrote:

> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html

It would be better if the menu could become some kind of drop down. Look at how Bootstrap is doing it [1]. The menu doesn't take up any more horizontal space when it's expanded.

[1] http://getbootstrap.com

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2015-01-19 03:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

> Yes. Next step: fix it! :o) -- Andrei

A couple of years ago I started on writing a contribution document [1] but never finished it. It might be a bit outdated now but it's mostly correct and could be used as a starting point.

[1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18386187/contribute.html

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 1/19/15 12:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-19 03:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
>> Yes. Next step: fix it! :o) -- Andrei
>
> A couple of years ago I started on writing a contribution document [1]
> but never finished it. It might be a bit outdated now but it's mostly
> correct and could be used as a starting point.
>
> [1] https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18386187/contribute.html

Great, thanks! -- Andrei

On 1/18/15 6:50 PM, DaveG wrote:
>
>
> Here's where I'm at. The menus don't use javascript (except when the
> screen gets so small it needs a button to open the navigation, the
> button uses js). It scales with screen size and should work on mobile
> (untested) - I changed doctype to html5 and added metatags for mobile.
>
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html

Could you please submit a PR to my better-menus fork on github? Thanks! -- Andrei

On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 07:56:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2015-01-19 03:50, DaveG wrote:
>
>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html
>
> It would be better if the menu could become some kind of drop down. Look at how Bootstrap is doing it [1]. The menu doesn't take up any more horizontal space when it's expanded.
>
> [1] http://getbootstrap.com

The vertical menu expanded from the top works well with relatively few items (in the case of bootstrap, eight). Personally, I don't think that method works well with many items (we currently show 13, and up to 26 when expanded). It is particularly weird when the menu takes up more than the height of the screen and you loose the context of where you are. Maybe I'm in the minority, what do other people think?

-Dave

On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 17:00:19 UTC, DaveG wrote:
> On Monday, 19 January 2015 at 07:56:39 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2015-01-19 03:50, DaveG wrote:
>>
>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/114394/D-site/redesign/index.html
>>
>> It would be better if the menu could become some kind of drop down. Look at how Bootstrap is doing it [1]. The menu doesn't take up any more horizontal space when it's expanded.
>>
>> [1] http://getbootstrap.com
>
> The vertical menu expanded from the top works well with relatively few items (in the case of bootstrap, eight). Personally, I don't think that method works well with many items (we currently show 13, and up to 26 when expanded). It is particularly weird when the menu takes up more than the height of the screen and you loose the context of where you are. Maybe I'm in the minority, what do other people think?
>
> -Dave

+1
The menus are too long for it.