Can we please kill the hyphenator already?
Kiith-Sa
kiithsacmp at gmail.com
Sun Sep 29 15:48:10 PDT 2013
On Sunday, 29 September 2013 at 22:00:02 UTC, 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.
+1
The lag really pisses me off and I couldn't care less about the
hyphenation. Cosmetic features like this are OK but only if they
don't slow users down. If they _are_ slowing users down, they
shouldn't exist.
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