From: Gawnsoft <xlucid@...>
Date: 2003-07-23T18:03:31+09:00
Subject: Re: New RDoc template, and a question

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 13:41:16 +0900, Dave Thomas <dave@pragprog.com>
wrote (more or less):

>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?

It depends if you're publishing only for desktop machines, or for
desktops and also for handheld devices, which tend to have less
compute power for powerful browsers, as well as more limited displays
(e.g. monochrome)


Cheers, 
   Euan
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