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Re: DevDocs

#61

Post by nmcfarl »

tvon wrote: post #51
endgame wrote: 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

I’m not sure. I’d say allowing some editorialization in the title would have made a better submission.

Say, title: "DevDocs: An organized, and consistent interface to Web Documentation", with the same URL.

Re: DevDocs

#62

Post by publicfig »

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.

I'm not sure that it's the only reason why IE isn't supported, but currently no version of IE supports the history api, which is a bit of an annoyance if you aren't developing a site that you can block certain browsers from using.

Re: DevDocs

#63

Post by inkel »

Thibaut wrote: post #54
afarrell wrote: post #37

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.

Please add plain DOM documentation. I use jQuery, but I also use other libs or none at all, and having access to the DOM API would be wonderful.

Re: DevDocs

#64

Post by tlrobinson »

endgame wrote: 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.

Hey look, it's another top-rated comment that adds precisely zero to the actual discussion at hand.

Re: DevDocs

#65

Post by maratd »

tvon wrote: post #51
endgame wrote: 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

No, a better submission would have been a title that says what it is.

The idea that I have to click to find out is nonsense. It's link-bait.

I would have never clicked if I knew it was docs for HTML/CSS/JQuery, no matter how slick.

I thought it was something more exciting, like a service where developers can submit their own docs and it's a central repository of sorts. Now that would have been interesting.

Re: DevDocs

#66

Post by tvon »

nmcfarl wrote: post #61
tvon wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I’m not sure. I’d say allowing some editorialization in the title would have made a better submission. Say, title: "DevDocs: An organized, and consistent interface to Web Documentation", with the same URL.

You're right, I misunderstood the complaint.

Re: DevDocs

#67

Post by WickyNilliams »

dewey wrote: post #16

And if you are using Alfred (Mac) you could use http://wemakeawesomesh.it/alfred-dev-doctor/

I agree, dev doctor is awesome! It integrates everything on devdocs and more (caniuse, MDN for instance). Works seemlessly with alfred, making doc lookups super quick.

Full disclosure: friends with author of dev doctor

Re: DevDocs

#68

Post by Osmium »

isxek wrote: post #52
Osmium wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In the interests of quoting the full context rather than just a few words, here's what he said in full:

"Dear The Great Developer of "Dash.app".

I do not ask you anymore. I do not say anything about your icon. It's a waste of time. But I am vindictive. Conversely, I inspired from your icon. This is the way of my protest. This time, you do not plagiarize this my icon, please.

Sayonara さよなら."

It seems the designer is Japanese, so there might be a language/cultural barrier too, but for what it's worth I think I would feel insulted by the Dash developer's reactions too!

Re: DevDocs

#69

Post by skotzko »

Although you have browser support covered on a doc-by-doc basis, I would find it useful to have a rollup page by browser of gotchas. e.g. all the common JS gotchas for IE8 (e.g. no go on client.innerWidth), IE9 not supported opacity, etc.

Here's a ghetto example of a reference file I started after recent project that drove me nuts which would give you the sense of what I mean: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApBq5nqLSn9MdER...

Re: DevDocs

#70

Post by tomphoolery »

Your browser version checker thing is wrong.

I am using WebKit nightly (which should be categorized under "Safari 5.1+"), and it gave me a warning that said my browser was unsupported. As a user of a potentially unstable browser, I don't mind when sites freak out because it's usually something I can report back to the WebKit team. So I'd really like to see if my bleeding-edge Safari (I guess this would be 6 technically?) can run DevDocs… :)

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