Tango 0.99.8 Sean released
Chad J
gamerchad at __spam.is.bad__gmail.com
Sat Mar 28 20:05:00 PDT 2009
Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Chad J wrote:
>
>> I was a bit annoyed by the API/Modules modality in the latter docs.
>> It'd be nice if the "Modules" list became collapsible and put the API
>> elements as children of each module. It seems the newer(?) version of
>> the docs is collapsible, but has yet to eliminate the modality. The
>> newer version is tolerable though since it doesn't just hijack the frame
>> when I click on a module. It made me have to navigate back to the
>> "Modules" mode every time I wanted to go to a different module. So
>> yeah, forced modality here is a bad thing. I'd prefer to just get rid
>> of the modality entirely and merge it all into one collapsible index.
>
> Not sure it is feasible to put _all_ public Tango symbols in the same tree,
> JS performance seems to very quickly become a potential issue. In that case
> the modality is a very acceptable workaround IMO. Feel free to work with
> Aziz on it though. Or create ticket(s).
>
Darn. Well alright.
>> Also, it seems dil has yet to make types found in the documentation act
>> as hyperlinks to their definitions or at least module of definition.
>> This one is big for me. I'm hoping it's been planned.
>
> Not sure what you mean here -if you mean that a return type should link to
> the docs of that type, then yes, that is something that we very much want
> but that requires more semantic processing than dil currently has.
>
OK, that's pretty much what I meant. I hope we eventually get more than
return type though: non-templated function args, class ancestors, etc.
would be nice as well.
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