Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Walter Bright
Jacob Carlborg wrote: I think this site has good CSS tutorials: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/ Here is a tutorial for a liquid three column layout with a header and a footer: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0916.htm Thanks!

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Stephan Soller
On 05.10.2010 04:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:i8d77c$1bf...@digitalmars.com... Stewart Gordon wrote: The layout breaks in anything but the default text zoom. The annoying thing about this is everyone says "don't use tables for layout, use CSS." Except that

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Stephan Soller" wrote in message news:i8epjv$1d3...@digitalmars.com... > On 05.10.2010 04:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> "Walter Bright" wrote in message >> news:i8d77c$1bf...@digitalmars.com... >>> Stewart Gordon wrote: The layout breaks in anything but the default text zoom. >>> >>> The a

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Stephan Soller" wrote in message news:i8epjv$1d3...@digitalmars.com... > (and the search engines are very happy about proper HTML code, too). I've actually come across this point before, that search engines will rank a page that doesn't use tables for layout better than one that does. I can't

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Bruno Medeiros
On 05/10/2010 02:13, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 10/4/10 18:54 CDT, Walter Bright wrote: Brian Hay wrote: With all due respect to Walter, as a professional web designer I have to agree with Andrei. It's terrible for all the reasons mentioned ... and more. "1995 programmer art" sums it up. O

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Stephan Soller
On 05.10.2010 12:24, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Stephan Soller" wrote in message news:i8epjv$1d3...@digitalmars.com... (and the search engines are very happy about proper HTML code, too). I've actually come across this point before, that search engines will rank a page that doesn't use tables

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Stephan Soller
On 05.10.2010 12:13, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Stephan Soller" wrote in message news:i8epjv$1d3...@digitalmars.com... On 05.10.2010 04:28, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Walter Bright" wrote in message news:i8d77c$1bf...@digitalmars.com... Stewart Gordon wrote: The layout breaks in anything but the

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Walter Bright
Stephan Soller wrote: This is especially handy when doing a presentation about a programming language since you can use JavaScript to write a small syntax highlighter (the grammar in the D documentation was really handy for that). :) A javascript D syntax highlighter? Please post!

d.vim 0.22

2010-10-05 Thread Jesse Phillips
This is actually a better implementation of a fix in 0.21 Highlighting of known versions is correct now. For one thing it would only highlight if the version statement was at the beginning of the line. http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=379

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 05/10/2010 06:51, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I think this site has good CSS tutorials: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/ Here is a tutorial for a liquid three column layout with a header and a footer: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/floatutorial/tutorial0916.htm That's geared towards creating a layout wi

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Arlo White
That's because HTML/CSS is a pretty terrible language for anything beyond simple layouts. It shares more with Word/PDF/PostScript in terms of its purpose and history than it does with real gui layout engines (GTK, QT, etc). Hardcore HTML/CSS people tout the virtues of separating the content fr

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 04/10/2010 19:42, Walter Bright wrote: Stewart Gordon wrote: The layout breaks in anything but the default text zoom. The annoying thing about this is everyone says "don't use tables for layout, use CSS." Except that using CSS for layout DOESN'T WORK RELIABLY. With tables, I can get 3 colum

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Walter Bright
Stewart Gordon wrote: Indeed, here are just a few things I hate to bits about CSS: Sure, but we're kind of stuck with it. While we can invent a new programming language, I don't think that inventing a new browser markup language is going to get any traction without convincing Microsoft, Googl

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Arlo White" wrote in message news:i8gem3$20a...@digitalmars.com... > That's because HTML/CSS is a pretty terrible language for anything beyond > simple layouts. It shares more with Word/PDF/PostScript in terms of its > purpose and history than it does with real gui layout engines (GTK, QT, >

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Stewart Gordon" wrote in message news:i8gfqi$22l...@digitalmars.com... > On 04/10/2010 19:42, Walter Bright wrote: >> Stewart Gordon wrote: >>> The layout breaks in anything but the default text zoom. >> >> The annoying thing about this is everyone says "don't use tables for >> layout, use CSS."

Re: New home page

2010-10-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:i8gj1i$28h...@digitalmars.com... > Stewart Gordon wrote: >> Indeed, here are just a few things I hate to bits about CSS: > > Sure, but we're kind of stuck with it. While we can invent a new > programming language, I don't think that inventing a new browser m