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

captaindet 2krnk at gmx.net
Fri Jun 14 08:35:43 PDT 2013


On 2013-06-14 01:08, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> 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

impressive! now it has the speed and usability of the older chm help files.

thanks for your work on this!

/det


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