On Monday, 21 April 2014 at 15:05:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 4/21/14, 5:01 AM, Kagamin wrote:
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 20:28:07 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic
wrote:
I really like rust-lang.org, I was thinking of using it as a
base for
design but decided against it because I don't want dlang.org
to be
accused of ripping of rust-lang.org.
This navigation layout was used for centuries in paper books.
Recently
it was used by gcc docs and w3c docs. I personally see no
reason for the
side bar: it's never used, just wastes space, which could be
used even
on 2500 display and maximized browser window: font can be
zoomed too,
then the side bar becomes a nuisance, while remaining useless
(the case
for forum.dlang.org).
Wait, are you advocating for text occupying the entire page
width, like a telex band? Aren't text lines difficult to follow
from the right side to the continuing left side? -- Andrei
Yes, there were numerous studies about line length (I don't have
any links to back this with but I'm sure that searching for "web
typography line length" on google would provide some useful
articles). And optimal line length is some 80-90 characters
(including the whitespace), I'll try not to cross that boundary
much.
