Improved Phobos dox

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On 15/09/13 13:32, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> It's not an improvement at all. Ctrl+F doesn't work with this (like
> you mentioned), and the items list is not even sorted
> alphabetically(!), so now we have to hunt down a symbol before we can
> jump to it. Also, what used to be just one step (click), now becomes
> more (click, scroll, click).

Agree, being able to use Ctrl+F is crucial.  Anything that kills that is a problem.

> The categorical table at the top of
> http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html is what I prefer the most,
> we could implemented this on other pages.

I seem to recall that table having some issues, e.g. stuff that appeared in the 
table but no longer appeared elsewhere in the docs, because it had been 
deprecated.  Was that because it's hand-written rather than autogenerated?

In any case, it's a nice design -- the combination of the category/functions 
summary table at the top, and the cheat sheet further down, gives a very good 
overview of the module.

If that sort of category table and cheat sheet could be automatically and 
statically generated as part of the docs build process, it would be great.  It's 
definitely preferable to avoid JavaScript as much as possible, not just because 
some people prefer to disable it but also because if the Ddoc build process can 
create smart module summaries in this way, it means that everyone using Ddoc can 
use that for their projects.