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

[Jimmy Cao]

I think bold instead of all caps would be better.  Either way is fine,
though.

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 4:05 PM, Lutger Blijdestijn <
lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>
> > On 12/9/10 8:04 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> >> The D website is 404'ing for the library page:
> >>
> >> http://d-programming-language.org/phobos/phobos.html
> >>
> >> 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:
> >>
> >> http://imgur.com/8Vdrj.jpg
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> So I just quickly sketched out what I'd like to see instead:
> >>
> >> http://imgur.com/0lufR.jpg
> >>
> >> 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).
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> 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
>
> With the json files dmd produces it can be automated, and you can do it the
> ddoc way (so latex and other formats would also be supported.) A
> disadvantage is that ddoc processor has to be ran twice plus an additional
> pass over the json is needed. ddoc support for this would obviously be
> better. I got this far (but it uses non-standard css3):
>
> https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6777848/ddoc_index.jpeg
>
> I'll share the tool when it's more complete, if this is something that is
> wanted for phobos I am willing to put it together.
>
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