From: Paul William Date: 2004-02-08T13:20:55+09:00 Subject: Re: YAPV (Yet Another Pickaxe Version) sooo slllooowwww. On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 07:45, Gavin Kistner wrote: > As promised in another thread, I am working on a new web version of the > Pickaxe book ("Programming Ruby - The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide"). > > Why? > > * This is a framed version, which (with JavaScript enabled) keeps the > book chapters syncrhonized with the Wiki pages noting changes due to 1.8). > > * This version is valid HTML4 markup, with consistent semantic markup. > (I kept the styles similar to the existing HTML versions, albeit > slightly cleaner...however, a single different CSS file could be used to > change the look near-completely.) [1] > > * Unlike all other versions based on the 0.4 release of the HTML/XML, > this version has included in it some very important 25 missing pages > from the section "The Ruby Language"! [2] > > > So, please check out the work so far [3] at: > http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/ > and give me feedback. (It seems to work and look correct in Safari 1.2, > Mozilla 1.4, and IE6Win. Does it fail for you? Does something about the > display frustrate you?) > > > (-, /\ \/ / /\/ > > > > [1] When I started out, I was just going to frame the existing HTML. > Then I saw how broken it was. So I thought "Hey, I have the XML, it must > be clean...I'll just throw a few regexp at it and voila! clean HTML." > Almost a week later, I'm a little over halfway done with all the pages. :| > > [2] Dave kindly supplied me with some new XML, but only after I found an > HTML version of 0.3a on the web and started cleaning it. Sorry > Dave...I'll look through the XML soon and clean up the changes as needed. > > [3] Only the following sections are done: "Introduction", "Facets of > Ruby", "Ruby in Its Setting", and "Ruby Crystallized" > I'm working on the Library Reference section now. -- .''`. Paul William : :' : Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system

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