Can we please kill the hyphenator already?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Tue Oct 1 10:04:29 PDT 2013


On 9/29/13 2:59 PM, 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.

Fixed - I just pushed the fixed druntime docs.

Andrei



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