Can we please kill the hyphenator already?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Sun Sep 29 16:13:03 PDT 2013


On 9/29/13 3:23 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> 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?

Not to my knowledge.

Andrei



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