Re: "modern" doc viewer for info/html

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>]

lennart.borgman@gmail.com writes:

> On Sat, Aug 2, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk> wrote:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> >> There is some more info here:
>> >>
>> >>     https://github.com/nicferrier/gnudoc-js/
>> >
>> > Thanks, but I asked about features and functionality, not about the
>> > implementation details.
>>
>> That's the main difference between info and this. Info is a finished
>> product, this is just a demo of what could be done.
>>
>>
>>
> How about search engines, Nic?
>
> Yes, I know it is not a finished product, but what are your thoughts about
> it. Google, for example, want a plain html page for indexing. And I guess
> other search engines wants that too.

There's nothing about the architecture of this that would stop it being
indexed.

And indexing and presenting a different UI are two different
concerns. As I said before, this just proxies existing GNU
documentation. The existing documentation is very good for indexing and
it's still there. I'm not replacing it. I'm just making a "better" UI
for it.


Nic