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Re: DevDocs

#51
post #3

Hey look, it's another submission where the title conveys the exact same amount of information as the URL. Which is a shame, because it's actually a pretty neat-looking HTML5/css/jquery reference.

I think it's fairly self explanatory, but the about page would have been a better submission:

http://devdocs.io/about

Re: DevDocs

#52
post #32
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.…

In the link for the alternative icon, the icon designer has declined to enter any new discussions, as he felt "insulted" with the Dash developer's reactions on Twitter. He feels any more discussion is "a waste of time."

At any rate, I wish we non-Mac users had something like Dash.

Re: DevDocs

#53

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.

Another option is to make offline support a paid feature.

Re: DevDocs

#54

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.

Thanks for the idea.

I built a flexible scraper for downloading and filtering the docs so you can except more sources to be added soon.

Toggling docs on and off is also on my todo list.

Re: DevDocs

#55

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.

Another option is to make offline support a paid feature.

I was thinking the same. We'll see.

Re: DevDocs

#56
The nav tree doesn't seem to remember which items I had expanded if I collapse the parent and then open it back up. Is this intentional?

Very cool resource, though. Thanks!

Re: DevDocs

#57

The nav tree doesn't seem to remember which items I had expanded if I collapse the parent and then open it back up. Is this intentional? Very cool resource, though. Thanks!

Thanks! It's intentional because I haven't had the time to implement it yet. ;)

Re: DevDocs

#59
This looks very promising!

Here's a suggestion. My favourite source for Rails docs is apidock.com because it allows people to comment and supply examples. It would be really nice if devdocs could incorporate something like that or perhaps even a wikipedia-like way to update the docs.

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