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Re: DevDocs

#32

Post by Osmium »

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.

Love Dash (and own a license), but there was sadly some controversy regarding their new icon and "inspiration" recently. Will try and find a link...

Edit: so the old Dash icon was a free icon from http://www.yootheme.com/icons/freebies (the cat one). Recently this icon was replaced with a custom one, which makes sense, except the new Dash icon seems to be heavily "inspired" by somebody else's work -- http://dribbble.com/shots/913643-Chrome-replacement-icon

See the comparison here: http://twitpic.com/ciu8a7

Relevant tweets:

[Dash dev]

https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/328037766166368256

https://twitter.com/kapeli/status/328112260805451779

[Icon designer]

https://twitter.com/wakaba_en/status/328075341618892800

Seems like the Dash dev disagrees with the icon author on where the line between "inspiration" and "plagiarism" lies. It doesn't help that there's a language barrier between the icon author and Dash developer.

Icon designer even proposed an alternative icon:

http://dribbble.com/shots/1046492-Dash-app-replacement-icon

But sadly it seems like this issue hasn't been rectified, but has just been forgotten about. I only found out about this after I'd bought a license; I'm posting this here in case someone else finds it relevant to their purchasing decisions.

Re: DevDocs

#33

Post by frankcaron »

As a long time technical writer, allow me to convey my sheer joy at how awesome this is. Issues with the submission and its descriptiveness in terms of HN standards aside, this is super wicked awesome and makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

Re: DevDocs

#34

Post by frankcaron »

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.

Wow. I hadn't heard of this; looks amazing. Thanks for the heads up!

Re: DevDocs

#35

Post by ajanuary »

It seems odd that something that's just fetching and displaying snippets of HTML doesn't have a non-js fallback. But from the About it looks like this is a personal project made public in case anyone else finds it useful.

Re: DevDocs

#37

Post by afarrell »

This is awesome and I'm going to start using it today.

Suggestions: Look at what AaronO built and use it to add other sources.

Keep the current interface free, but let me pay some amount of money per year (or month?) to create an account and configure what sources it looks through. I'd like to have it search through django, python, git, and bootstrap docs as well.

Re: DevDocs

#38

Post by atwebb »

Osmium wrote: post #32
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.

Love Dash (and own a license), but there was sadly some controversy regarding their new icon and "inspiration" recently. Will try and find a link... Edit: so the old Dash icon was a free icon from http://www.yootheme.com/icons/freebies (the cat one). Recently this icon was replaced with a custom one, which makes sense, except the new Dash icon seems to be heavily "inspired" by somebody else's work -- http://dribbble.…

I'm not familiar with the controversy besides what you posted, but my take away is that icon dev has some talent. The bookcase D is clever and well done, at least at that size.

Re: DevDocs

#39

Post by Thibaut »

alan_cx wrote: post #17

Just a feed back: For me, I click on HTML(1) in the menu on the left, and it expands below the page. There seems to be a thin scroll bar to the right to scroll down, but I cant grab it to scroll down. Only arrow keys and mouse wheel work. IMHO, scroll bar needs some work. Edit: (1)Correction I click on HTML, then HTML5. Then the list goes below the bottom of the browser, then I cant grab the scroll bar. Sorry for any…

Thanks for the bug report. I'll fix it soon :)

Re: DevDocs

#40

Post by Thibaut »

frankcaron wrote: post #33

As a long time technical writer, allow me to convey my sheer joy at how awesome this is. Issues with the submission and its descriptiveness in terms of HN standards aside, this is super wicked awesome and makes me warm and fuzzy inside.

Thanks! :)
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