Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-11 Thread Mirko Pilger
I've tried many different fonts in the browser, to no avail. And as an aside, the *DEFAULT* font in a browser should display very well. It doesn't; not in IE, not in FF. some fonts look very ugly in all browsers if you have switched off "font smoothing". eg. on windows this is the case if you h

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-11 Thread Mirko Pilger
I've dinked around with those settings on IE and FF. Doesn't make much of any difference. i should have emphasized it better that i was talking about system settings. for example on windows xp you can activate "cleartype" by right clicking the desktop-> properties-> appearance-> effects-> "u

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-11 Thread Mirko Pilger
Looking at my screen with a magnifying glass, it has no effect I can see on the browser fonts. i've attached a png image to show how cleartype effects font rendering in google chrome on my system (windows xp professional sp3). the example site is http://www.google.com/webfonts. on the left s

Re: D programming language specification ebook

2011-07-11 Thread Mirko Pilger
So you're using Chrome, not IE! i wanted to show you an example how rendering looks with and without cleartype and help you identify the problem. of the major browsers only safari has its own subpixel algorithm. all others based on webkit, gecko or trident engines depend on the cleartype te

Re: Visual D 0.3.29 features C++ to D conversion wizard

2011-12-03 Thread Mirko Pilger
i neither see the menu entry nor the command assignment, too. i'm using the vs shell 2008.

Re: Visual D 0.3.29 features C++ to D conversion wizard

2011-12-03 Thread Mirko Pilger
Should be fixed now, I've replaced the installer. i can confirm this for vs shell 2008 on win xp sp3. i'll give it a shot and feed it some c++ code later this evening. thanks for your work.

Re: DuckFuck v0.2: D-based FuckFuck and More! (Such as BrainFuck)

2012-01-17 Thread Mirko Pilger
i heard the rumour there actually are peta activists intelligent enough to code! so to prevent possible death threats you probably should add a disclaimer that no duck was/is harmed (!?) during the development process or use. ;)

Re: http://dlang.org/bugstats.php

2012-01-23 Thread Mirko Pilger
For at least a few years now, I've dreamt of creating a *sane* alternative to (X)HTML/CSS that's *ACTUALLY DESIGNED* for UIs instead of documents. [...] Unfortunately, my pet-project plate already resembles that of a one-trip buffet: Piled up, overflowing and more than one person should ever be ab

Re: Mozilla Rust 0.1

2012-01-28 Thread Mirko Pilger
This holds as long as one has to _write_ code. Ever heard of speech recognition? do you acually have some experiences with this method producing code? i have a hard time to believe "speech recognition" is faster than typing, e.g. i can press two keys (altgr-7) quicker than saying "computer, ri

Re: Mozilla Rust 0.1

2012-01-28 Thread Mirko Pilger
It is just like talking to a human, the output would be what you meant instead of what you said. "it is just like talking to a woman, the output would be what she meant instead of what you said." somebody call the xkcd guy :)

Re: Revamp of CandyDOC

2012-04-13 Thread Mirko Pilger
It would be nice if at least it functions correctly in IE8, but I don't have it on my machine. Is there a way to test it without installing it on the system(I don't want it to replace IE9 basically)? http://utilu.com/IECollection/

Re: Mono-D 0.3.7

2012-04-17 Thread Mirko Pilger
you should probably mention somewhere explicitly that this works *only* with the _alpha_ and not with the _stable_ release of monodevelop atm.

Re: Mono-D 0.3.7

2012-04-17 Thread Mirko Pilger
wasn't trying to pin that on someone. i just think a _small hint_ would prevent people from downloading the wrong release and turn away in frustration because your installation instructions don't work in this case.

Re: Introducing vibe.d!

2012-04-29 Thread Mirko Pilger
i would like to know a bit more about those "extension modules for vibe" and the "vpm registry". e.g. can i write yet another web framework on top of the vibe io modules as an "vibe extension" and would you even encourage this?

Re: D Conference 2012 - Sep 26-29 at the Banker's Suite and Ballroom in Astoria, Oregon

2012-05-25 Thread Mirko Pilger
RMS doesn't let people send him documents in proprietary formats - let's all refuse to read top-postings with an auto-reply with this link :) the traditional link used to be: http://learn.to/quote/

Re: Pull freeze

2012-08-01 Thread Mirko Pilger
Along those lines, I really think dmd-beta should me moved to the newsgroups. the newsgroup is already available via gmane.comp.lang.d.dmd.beta