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Re: DevDocs

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Post by rrrene »

alan_cx wrote: post #18
zorbo wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, DevDocs is nicer at the moment: - It's faster - I don't have to select a programming language before I can start searching - It handles keyboard input a lot better. As soon as the page loads, I can start typing, move down with the arrow keys and activate a selection with the enter key.

Sure but it seems far less content. Maybe speed will suffer as content increases. Sites like this, IMHO, are about content, not speed.

Never underestimate the importance of responsiveness in user interfaces, especially when those interfaces are used look something up.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by bobsy »

Looks awesome. Very useful.

How is this site made? It looks like changing pages are ajax transitions but the url is changing at the top? Could someone point me in the direction of how this is made please. Would be really interested.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by bliker »

AaronO wrote: post #22

I built something similar a few weeks ago: http://doks.io (It supports all major languages and frameworks) (And it's open source !)

That is astonishing number of sources. But it is quite confusing when each source opens in different windows with different styling.

I wish there was some universal documentation format that could be shared among all software.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by robinduckett »

bobsy wrote: post #23

Looks awesome. Very useful. How is this site made? It looks like changing pages are ajax transitions but the url is changing at the top? Could someone point me in the direction of how this is made please. Would be really interested.

HTML5 history.pushState

Re: DevDocs

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Post by [deleted] »

bobsy wrote: post #23

Looks awesome. Very useful. How is this site made? It looks like changing pages are ajax transitions but the url is changing at the top? Could someone point me in the direction of how this is made please. Would be really interested.

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Re: DevDocs

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Post by nekgrim »

bobsy wrote: post #23

Looks awesome. Very useful. How is this site made? It looks like changing pages are ajax transitions but the url is changing at the top? Could someone point me in the direction of how this is made please. Would be really interested.

It's the HTML5 History API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/DOM/Manip...

Re: DevDocs

#28

Post by AaronO »

johtso wrote: post #4

If you're on a mac you might want to check out Dash http://kapeli.com/dash Very simliar goal, but offline and instant. After using it for a while it's hard to imagine going back to reading documentation in a web-browser.

I built http://doks.io

Which supports all the documentation Dash does. (The web UI is pretty simple, it was built in an evening).

But both the server side and the web UI are open source.

If you like Dash, you might like Doks

Re: DevDocs

#29

Post by chrisboesing »

bobsy wrote: post #23

Looks awesome. Very useful. How is this site made? It looks like changing pages are ajax transitions but the url is changing at the top? Could someone point me in the direction of how this is made please. Would be really interested.

Without looking at the source, I would say it is using the History API introduced in HTML5.

Here is a nice article describing it: http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html

A simple example with source can be found here: http://html5demos.com/history

Re: DevDocs

#30

Post by bobsy »

nekgrim wrote: post #27
bobsy wrote: post #23

Looks awesome. Very useful. How is this site made? It looks like changing pages are ajax transitions but the url is changing at the top? Could someone point me in the direction of how this is made please. Would be really interested.

It's the HTML5 History API. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/DOM/Manip...

Thanks a lot. I have a seen a few sites like this and have been wondering. Sites using this feel like they load so much faster and more fluidly.
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