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Re: DevDocs

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Post by Thibaut »

tomphoolery wrote: post #70

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 technical…

Yes, sorry. I deployed a bug that blocked all browsers for a couple of minutes. It's fixed.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by Legion »

zorbo wrote: post #46
bliker wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But only with fraction of content...

It seems to be compatible with Dash's DocSets, so you could use those on it.

This capability is what took me from trying the Dash demo to paying for the app.

Once the content became something I could use on all my computers and not just the Macs, it became worth the money.

Being cool and cooperative with Zeal earned the Dash developer at least one sale.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by Siecje »

AaronO wrote: post #28
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

I can't type quickly in the search field. Kind of a bid deal.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by proexploit »

WestCoastJustin wrote: post #72

Is this something that I can host locally, using my own documents, like on an internal network?

Doesn't look like it. See the about page, I think that's a pretty good indicator he intends to host it (although might be open to selling a license).

Why isn't this project open-source?

Ultimately I'd like DevDocs to provide me with some income so I can keep improving it over the long-term. Until I figure out how to do that I've decided to keep the project closed-source. If you have comments or ideas about this I'd love to hear them.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by stock_toaster »

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.…

Wow. That does seem like a rather blatant ripoff of the icon design.

Re: DevDocs

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Post by FreshCode »

Any chance of releasing the theme within a styling framework like Bootstrap? This would be amazing for some of our internal tools and documentation.

Edit: I see the author responded to "Why isn't this open-source?" on the About page, http://devdocs.io/about

Re: DevDocs

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Post by ChrisLTD »

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 love Dash, it's saved my butt when I've had spotty or zero Internet access. However, I've found that on my laptop it is far faster to do a web search for documentation than it is for Dash to do the search locally.
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