[Ann] RueDoc: rdoc-hacks 0.1 and a frameless template

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OK, reasonably stable now, lots of work to be done still.
I was even able to (mostly) generate docs for Ruby 1.9.

Anyway, consider this a 'technology preview' release.
It comes in two distinct parts all in all:

rdoc-hacks simply allows a user to override RDoc's default
            behaviour of writing to a template. It expects a
            block to which it yields the data RDoc has generated
            in plain Ruby data structures. The user is then
            free to do whatever they please with that data.

rue.rb is a template for RDoc. Its 'special' features are
            the prominent lack of frames: everything is done with
            JavaScript instead. It also uses XMLHttpRequest for
            retrieving data so it does not have to kept in one
            monolithic file. Valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS is produced,
            and 508 and WAI validators pass as well.

This release seems to have the severe problem of displaying a
blank page in both IE and Opera. Ideas welcome :slight_smile:

The old warnings apply: No browser back button.
                         Still red.
                         C extension method name problems.

Examples:
http://www.magical-cat.org/projects/ruedoc/examples/ruby-1.9/
http://www.magical-cat.org/projects/ruedoc/examples/oughtve/

Documentation:
http://www.magical-cat.org/projects/ruedoc/rdoc

Download:
http://www.magical-cat.org/projects/ruedoc/downloads/ruedoc-0.1.tar.bz2
http://www.magical-cat.org/projects/ruedoc/downloads/ruedoc-0.1.tar.gz

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ES wrote:

OK, reasonably stable now, lots of work to be done still.
I was even able to (mostly) generate docs for Ruby 1.9.

Anyway, consider this a 'technology preview' release.
It comes in two distinct parts all in all:

Sweet! This looks super bad.

You may have saved me a whole bunch of work, for which I am quite grateful.

James

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ES wrote:
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This release seems to have the severe problem of displaying a
blank page in both IE and Opera. Ideas welcome :slight_smile:

Does this help?

http://rubyurl.com/qXY

AKA

James

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Very nice!

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James Britt wrote:

ES wrote:
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This release seems to have the severe problem of displaying a
blank page in both IE and Opera. Ideas welcome :slight_smile:

Does this help?

http://rubyurl.com/qXY

Unfortunately not... the other pages are validating OK yet suffer
from the lack of display. This, however, did indicate a problem with
the way the missing method names (from C code) are handled. I will fix
it although the underlying problem still remains until I can figure out
where RDoc eats the names.

AKA

Validation Results - W3C Markup Validator

James

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