From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T13:52:45+09:00
Subject: Re: New RDoc template, and a question

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Thomas" <dave@pragprog.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 11:41 PM
Subject: New RDoc template, and a question


> Michael Granger has produced a wonderful new RDoc template, which looks 
> about 1067 times better than any HTML I ever produced. What's even 
> better: if you use the "inline source" option, the source is inlined 
> into the page, but is hidden until you click on the 'source' button.
> 
> You can see what this looks like at
> 
>      http://rdoc.sourceforge.net/newdoc/
> 
> Click on one of the Ruby method names in the top-right pane, then click 
> on the [source] link to see the effect.
> 
> Now the question: this new template relies on DHTML, Javascript, and a 
> lot of CSS. Has the world of browsers advanced to the point where I 
> could make this the default style, or do we still need to support the 
> previous generation?

FWIW, it works fine in Konqueror 3.0.5 in 
Red Hat 8. Also in my (fairly old) IE on
Win98.

Minor nit: I do think the dark background
makes the source a little hard to read.

Hal

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