http://d-programming-language.org/ 404 & small proposal

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 12/9/10 8:04 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> The D website is 404'ing for the library page:
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> http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/phobos.html
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> And I've had an idea to make the documentation website a little easier to navigate. Here's what the docs look like with their old design:
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> http://imgur.com/8Vdrj.jpg
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> Now, that's quite a mess to look at. The text isn't aligned or anything so it doesn't look that good, and you can't really tell which of those names are functions, class definitions or enums, etc.
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> So I just quickly sketched out what I'd like to see instead:
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> http://imgur.com/0lufR.jpg
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> Disregard the off coloring, font sizes, and my general lack of design skills please :). The main point is to put the links in a table so they're aligned and easier to browse, and maybe even categorize all the names by their type (functions/enums/etc).
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> I'm pretty sure adding a table is trivial, but I don't know if we can automatically categorize all the names and put them in separate tables.
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> Thoughts?
>

Very nice initiative. I'm not sure how we can implement that easy 
without considerable effort; currently, the list is generated with
Javascript using a flat list. To generate a more structured list, the 
programmer would need to insert appropriate cues in the documentation.

Andrei