Refresh download page

[brad-anderson]

The download page is looking rather dated and is difficult to navigate. I'm not a graphic designer but I thought I'd try my hand at making it look a bit more modern and easy to use.

You can see what the full page looks like here.

[alexrp]

• s/Compiler/compiler/ for consistency.
• I don't think this layout will scale with new OSs in the future?

[brad-anderson]

s/Compiler/compiler/ for consistency.

Done.

I don't think this layout will scale with new OSs in the future?

I thought about that when you mentioned it the other day but decided I'd rather make use of the horizontal space so the most common downloads are on screen. When other platforms are offered the page can be changed without too much difficulty.

[WalterBright]

Please use Ddoc macros, not explicit HTML. Using explicit HTML breaks generating PDF, Ebook, and other output formats.

[brad-anderson]

The file was already filled with bare HTML so I figured it was ok. I originally was implementing it in DDoc but it was difficult to work through that indirection and still make it not look terrible.

It doesn't matter in any case because Andrei vetoed this to me privately saying it "sux. they're just like splatters of blood left by a guy who got an arrow in the knee".

I don't have the drive anymore to improve the page so feel free to close this.

[andralex]

The proposed design looks okay to me. Here's what I think could make this successful:

1. Get a vote from the newsgroup
2. Rewrite the page in ddoc - there is no way we can merge it with the html, it would be a step backward.

@eco thoughts?

[andralex]

@eco will close until you make a decision