[dmd-beta] dmd 2.063.2 beta 2 - windows help broken

Vladimir Panteleev vladimir at thecybershadow.net
Thu Jun 13 23:08:58 PDT 2013


On Friday, 14 June 2013 at 03:45:37 UTC, captaindet wrote:
> the changelog page does load very slowly though (and my 
> computer is not the weakest one...), some other pages are a bit 
> sluggish too. earlier chm helps were very responsive. i guess 
> it is the (increased) use of javascript on the dlang website. 
> do we really need so much of it? and does it all have to go in 
> the chm file? i would not mind a more austere appearance for a 
> simple offline help. but this is probably easier said than done.

The lag is caused by the hyphenation script. It inserts soft 
hyphens to allow line breaks inside words. It is often the target 
of complaints (such as adversely affecting performance, or being 
incompatible with certain browsers).

I'll disable hyphenation in the CHM file, since this problem is 
especially grave due to the low JavaScript performance of the IE 
version used in the CHM reader.

Here is a new version:

http://dump.thecybershadow.net/3b3a645e610038cb40eb8ea1cad8fa07/d.chm


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