On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 15:01:52 UTC, Dmitry wrote:
On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 13:38:48 UTC, Charles wrote:
That's silliness, and not how percentages work at all. To
suggest that 95% of people that go to dlang.org have
widescreens because 95% of some other user base is nonsense.
1) Do you have statistics of dlang.org?
This is entirely my point. I don't, and I can't tell from your
response that you do either.
2) Do you think that dlang.org statisitcs will be very
different with world statistics? I don't think so.
Yes. I'd suspect the number of people using phones to visit a
programming language website would be smaller than, say,
Facebook. I have no way of telling though. Do you? It's better to
not assume.
3) Do you think that % of 4:3 displays will not drop? In all
world it decrease each month.
Websites need to be maintained just like anything else. That's
the entire point of this thread.
I used statistics from my professional sphere, but ok, lets try
google any other.
For example,
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_display.asp
1024x768 Jan 2015: 4%
1280x1024 Jan 2015: 7%
1366x768 33%
1920x1080 16%
They state right on the page that its only visitors of
w3schools.com, so... people interested in learning web
development.
Other way. Check any shop. How many new monitors 4:3 (or 5:4)
it have, and how many widescreen?
Check, how many new 4:3 models have, for example, LG? One.
Asus? No one. Any other company? Only a few, right? Trend is
that % of 4:3 displays goes to be 0 soon.
Completely correct. Now, how many monitors support a vertical
orientation? Just because its uncommon doesn't mean its not done.
Opinion. I agree with you, but why alienate anyone? It's not
like narrow websites are unusable. They're just not your
preference. For people like Ola, wide websites are
legitimately unusable.
I did not say that site must be only for widescreen. Keywords:
Responsive Web Design.
Go ahead and Google that. I can almost guarantee you one of the
first things you'll find is "Mobile First". Yeah, its still a big
deal.
To be fair, D's documentation uses a left-side menu, but it
removes the top level navigation (you have to press the logo).
Yep, new design has _same_ solution.
The new design was a rough draft. It also didn't even implement
documentation navigation, it merely served as a proof-of-concept.
I'd call that more of a design flaw than a feature.
Do you have more good ideas?
I'd suggest using left navigation for documentation navigation,
and a top bar for main site navigation. On small screen width,
instead of a left navigation, it'd just be a list for each module
page, and a back button on the module pages. I'd have to play
with it a bit to figure out how I'd want it for sure though.
