Re: New User Experience

2009-06-30 Thread Robert Clipsham
Nick Sabalausky wrote: Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.325.1246318374.13405.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nick Sabalauskya...@a.a wrote: BCS n...@anon.com wrote in message

New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
way into various conversations. I'm hoping that it might be useful to try to enumerate the most important improvements to D's new user experience ones in one place, see how much of a consensus emerges, and see if there's anything we can/can't/should/shouldn't do about any of them, etc. Maybe

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread BCS
Hello Nick, - Not everyone uses one of the #1 fastest browsers (heh, see what I did there?). For those people, like me, when they go to the Projects link, the page really comes across like it's hung or broken even though it says Loading And it really takes awhile. That needs to be

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Robert Clipsham
Nick Sabalausky wrote: digitalmars.com/d: Agreed, the initial entry point to D for most people is this site, it would be awesome would undertake the task of redesigning it to be more user friendly and point the newbies in the right direction. DSource: I believe there's quite a lot

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
BCS n...@anon.com wrote in message news:a6268ff76dc8cbc6e39c453...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello Nick, - Not everyone uses one of the #1 fastest browsers (heh, see what I did there?). For those people, like me, when they go to the Projects link, the page really comes across like it's hung

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.325.1246318374.13405.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nick Sabalauskya...@a.a wrote: BCS n...@anon.com wrote in message news:a6268ff76dc8cbc6e39c453...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billings...@gmail.com wrote in message news:mailman.325.1246318374.13405.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Nick Sabalauskya...@a.a wrote: BCS n...@anon.com wrote in message news:a6268ff76dc8cbc6e39c453...@news.digitalmars.com... Hello

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Jarrett Billingsley
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Nick Sabalauskya...@a.a wrote: I've been browsing through the html/js code for that page. Looks it what it does is asynchronously load an XML representation (generated by the server) of all the project information and then, on the client-side, that XML is

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Jesse Phillips
don't mean to keep picking on digitalmars.com, it's just that it probably is the most relevant site to the new user experience. We care about it!) should somehow treat digitalmars.D.learn as the main D newsgroup and/or lead new users there instead of here. And digitalmars.D should be treated

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Leandro Lucarella
Jarrett Billingsley, el 29 de junio a las 20:30 me escribiste: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Nick Sabalauskya...@a.a wrote: I've been browsing through the html/js code for that page. Looks it what it does is asynchronously load an XML representation (generated by the server) of all the

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Jason House
- I'm probably biased on this, and trying to rationalize it as more of a new user experience issue than it really is, but the regex engine's been broken with open tickets for a while now. Ok, maybe not truly broken, but buggy enough that I haven't felt comfortable trusting it. Again

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Jesse Phillips jessekphill...@gmail.com wrote in message news:h2bsqf$237...@digitalmars.com... On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:03:59 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: - Somewhere prominent (buy maybe not too prominent? FAQ page, maybe?), there should be an admission of the Phobos/Tango situation (because

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Daniel Keep
Jarrett Billingsley wrote: I use FF3 and there's still a considerable delay (~7s). Of course, it's _the Internet_ over a questionable Comcast connection. Half the time it takes servers several seconds to respond to static page requests anyway. I had a look at Firebug, and it looks like

Re: New User Experience

2009-06-29 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:59:03 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: At the very least, digitalmars.com/d could really use to make Wiki4D extremely visible and obvious, like an officially sanctioned third party D resource, or something like that. In fact, a major reason for my suggestion that