Can we please kill the hyphenator already?

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Sun Sep 29 15:23:40 PDT 2013


On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 11:59:48PM +0200, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> We're literally having new people coming in to IRC every day saying
> they can't read the D documentation because of hyphenator completely
> blocking the website (before the browser forces it to stop loading).
> 
> If Andrei still wants it in, fine, but re-add it **later** once it's
> fixed or implemented properly. We can't have the site be unusable in
> the meantime. E.g. loading the following page blocks the latest
> version of Firefox for several seconds before getting a dialog box
> asking the user to stop the script:
> 
> http://dlang.org/phobos/core_time.html
> 
> Remove hyphenator, sync up the website, and them make a decision on
> what to do later. I am really pissed off at how many D newcomers get
> thrown off, because someone is sitting on their hands with the key to
> the website in their pocket. We might as well (as a community) move
> the entire website over to another place, and end this veto nonsense.

Wait, didn't somebody already merge the pull to kill off the hyphenator?
Did it get re-introduced unilaterally without discussion?


T

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