http://www.digitalmars.com

Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to what I think are the most useful links.

Comments welcome.

On 2010-10-04 7:09, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.digitalmars.com
>
> Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am
> just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to
> what I think are the most useful links.
>
> Comments welcome.

The new page loads terribly slow because of some embedded resource from twitter.com. Twitter is blocked in China, so when I open your website nothing is shown until the connection to twitter times out. Perhaps you can use XmlHttpRequest in javascript to load the twitter stuff on the 'background'?

Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> The new page loads terribly slow because of some embedded resource from twitter.com. Twitter is blocked in China, so when I open your website nothing is shown until the connection to twitter times out. Perhaps you can use XmlHttpRequest in javascript to load the twitter stuff on the 'background'?

The previous page had the same javascript in it. I don't know how this one could load slow and the previous one not.

Can you post a diff for how to change the html to load in the background?

"Lionello Lunesu" <lio@lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message news:i8bf68$s54$1@digitalmars.com...
> On 2010-10-04 7:09, Walter Bright wrote:
>> http://www.digitalmars.com
>>
>> Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to what I think are the most useful links.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
>
> The new page loads terribly slow because of some embedded resource from twitter.com. Twitter is blocked in China, so when I open your website nothing is shown until the connection to twitter times out. Perhaps you can use XmlHttpRequest in javascript to load the twitter stuff on the 'background'?

Works fine with JS off.

Hello Nick,

> "Lionello Lunesu" <lio@lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message
> news:i8bf68$s54$1@digitalmars.com...
> 
>>Twitter is blocked in China, so when I open your
>> website nothing is shown until the connection to twitter times out.
>
> Works fine with JS off.

are you in china?


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"BCS" <none@anon.com> wrote in message news:a6268ff1d6668cd315bbe9b6d30@news.digitalmars.com...
> Hello Nick,
>
>> "Lionello Lunesu" <lio@lunesu.remove.com> wrote in message news:i8bf68$s54$1@digitalmars.com...
>>
>>>Twitter is blocked in China, so when I open your
>>> website nothing is shown until the connection to twitter times out.
>>
>> Works fine with JS off.
>
> are you in china?
>

The twitter access is done through JS, so without JS the page does jack-shit with twitter (the way all the internet should be if you ask me, JS or not). And the rest of the page works fine without JS (which is not something that's going to be affected by region), so it doesn't matter where I'm looking from: It's works fine with JS off...Unless the browser is stupid enough to actually try to load external scripts when JS is off...

On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:09:15 -0700, Walter Bright <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:

>http://www.digitalmars.com
>
>Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to what I think are the most useful links.
>
>Comments welcome.

I think the 'Download Now' link should be just 'Download' and should link to http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html.

Gide

Gide Nwawudu wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 16:09:15 -0700, Walter Bright
> <newshound2@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> 
>> http://www.digitalmars.com
>>
>> Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to what I think are the most useful links.
>>
>> Comments welcome.
> 
> I think the 'Download Now' link should be just 'Download' and should
> link to http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html.

The 'Download more...' does link to that page. I was looking to make the 'Download Now' work as directly as possible. The download.html has a rather large number of options.

On 04/10/2010 00:09, Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.digitalmars.com
>
> Yes, I should add some color and style sheets, but at the moment I am
> just trying to get the layout right and make it much simpler to get to
> what I think are the most useful links.
>
> Comments welcome.

The layout breaks in anything but the default text zoom.  Need to get rid of the mixed px/em sizes.  Instead, specify all the widths in %, and use another div within the div for padding.

Stewart.

Hello Nick,

> "BCS" <none@anon.com> wrote in message
> news:a6268ff1d6668cd315bbe9b6d30@news.digitalmars.com...
> 
>> are you in china?
>> 
> Unless
> the browser is stupid enough to actually try to load external scripts
> when JS is off...

1) You are assuming some third party isn't an idiot. I wouldn't usually bet on that one.
2) there could be some sort of CSS/img/etc. component to it that doesn't get ignored.

Point being that the whole web is so stinking complicated the only way to tell what the effects of blocking something are is to block it and see.

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