Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Stewart Gordon" wrote in message news:jcgkhi$2ohd$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 16/12/2011 18:26, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> For example, I have an articles section on my site that (currently) uses >> TangoCMS. I neither know nor care what doctype TangoCMS is sending out >> (and >> I have even

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Adam D. Ruppe" wrote in message news:xhaizhcmeybruijmp...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 22:25:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> *snip* > > I agree pretty much entirely, but meh, when web 2.0 gives > you a turd, you make a shit sandwich and you LIKE it! lol

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-16 Thread JoeCoder
On 12/15/2011 2:25 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/15/2011 4:16 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I wonder if we can list breaking changes in a separate sections in the changelog. Any bug fix is a breaking change - code can and does depend on bugs (often inadvertently). I've never seen code depend o

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-16 Thread Christian Manning
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 22:48:21 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: That actually has exactly the same problem. You're slicing a temporary. You can't slice a static array unless it's an actual variable, or you're going to have problems. b points to a slice of a static array which doesn't exist

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 23:41:19 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: Yes: I'll agree that some of the validator's things help with that, but not all of it. If you write block in inline, the validator will reject it, but it works... and that's a useful thing when doing drag+drop applications (sin

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 22:25:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: *snip* I agree pretty much entirely, but meh, when web 2.0 gives you a turd, you make a shit sandwich and you LIKE it!

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 16/12/2011 15:09, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 13:33:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: But whatever I try to validate it as, there are errors. Does validation make any positive difference at all? Yes: - it's a useful step in diagnosing problems with a webpage - it helps

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 16/12/2011 18:26, Nick Sabalausky wrote: For example, I have an articles section on my site that (currently) uses TangoCMS. I neither know nor care what doctype TangoCMS is sending out (and I have even less interest in mucking with it's internals to change it), and yet when I want to bold or

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, December 16, 2011 22:37:50 Christian Manning wrote: > How about this as a better test case? > > ubyte[4] a; > auto x() { > return a; > } > void main() { > auto b = x()[1..$]; > } That actually has exactly the same problem. You're slicing a temporary. You can't slice a static array un

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Adam D. Ruppe" wrote in message news:dxjkyeeqrhsgsknfh...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > > So is cool, but is probably bad. > Yea, I totally agree. >> C. You may be operating with a workflow where the web designer is >> CSS-only, but that's not always the case, and I think reasonable

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 21:19:27 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: A. While CSS is acceptable for styling (though I would change some things), it's pure shit for layouts. I wouldn't say that, completely. I do use a html template, but only for the outer layouts; it's a frame of sorts that I can

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-16 Thread Christian Manning
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 16:43:29 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, December 16, 2011 16:26:11 Christian Manning wrote: On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 07:05:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > Highlights are use of XMM floating point registers in 64 bit > targets, and now supporting O

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Adam D. Ruppe" wrote in message news:anfqlbdugtkomnzbu...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > > The important thing though is to make sure the html describes > the data well. Once you put in any kind of presentation in there, > you break this approach. > > class="red" no no, what if it's a blu

Re: D1 dmd 1.072 release

2011-12-16 Thread Jakob Bornecrantz
On Saturday, 10 December 2011 at 23:05:11 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Highlights are use of XMM floating point registers in 64 bit targets, and now supporting OS X 64 as a target. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.072.zip The D2 version will follow

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 18:28:07 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I've started going back to and . Why? I find this generally sane, but I can't agree with D. (lol) And seriously, who's going to be applying a custom stylesheet to my pages? My work D project recently brought on a new desig

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Adam D. Ruppe" < destructiona...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:virlzxfnfkylbbcce...@dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net... > On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 13:33:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: >> But whatever I try to validate it as, there are errors. > > Does validation make any positive differen

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/16/2011 5:33 AM, Stewart Gordon wrote: Or that you found it on a lot of webpages and just copied it without any clue of what it means? You can blame me for that, not Andrei.

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, December 16, 2011 16:26:11 Christian Manning wrote: > On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 07:05:25 UTC, Walter Bright > > wrote: > > Highlights are use of XMM floating point registers in 64 bit > > targets, and now supporting OS X 64 as a target. > > > > http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/

Re: dmd 2.057 release

2011-12-16 Thread Christian Manning
On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 07:05:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Highlights are use of XMM floating point registers in 64 bit targets, and now supporting OS X 64 as a target. http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.057.zip A lot of people put a ton

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 16 December 2011 at 13:33:06 UTC, Stewart Gordon wrote: But whatever I try to validate it as, there are errors. Does validation make any positive difference at all? I used to do it, but it prohibits things that are useful and work fine in practice* without offering much, if anything

Re: New homepage design of d-p-l.org is now live.

2011-12-16 Thread Stewart Gordon
On 14/12/2011 10:12, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 12/12/11 7:46 PM, Stewart Gordon wrote: On 06/12/2011 05:44, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://d-p-l.org Andrei Why does it have an HTML 4.01 doctype but then go on to use XHTML syntax??? Stewart. I wouldn't know. What needs to be done?