From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rasmus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "modern" doc viewer for info/html Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:34:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87iomb2q2b.fsf@gmx.us> References: <87wqarkbrw.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83wqarqthc.fsf@gnu.org> <87tx5vjo3j.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83r40zqmcp.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406972085 3415 80.91.229.3 (2 Aug 2014 09:34:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2014 09:34:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 02 11:34:35 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XDVhz-0008U6-4n for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:34:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43526 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDVhy-0002pD-Om for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:34:34 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52082) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDVhq-0002oj-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDVhk-0005cA-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:34:26 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:41972) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XDVhk-0005bi-9b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 05:34:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XDVhi-00084S-W3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:34:18 +0200 Original-Received: from 46.166.186.217 ([46.166.186.217]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:34:18 +0200 Original-Received: from rasmus by 46.166.186.217 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 02 Aug 2014 11:34:18 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 35 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 46.166.186.217 Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwCAAAAAByaaZbAAAAAmJLR0QA/4ePzL8AAAAJcEhZ cwAAAEgAAABIAEbJaz4AAAFiSURBVEjHnZbBkYAwCEUZ+qEZOqEVuqGK3xCHPUQNie4OWW6OeUrg 8xOi48glMJ4BIDMzY3v/DcBERA1dwIWZmVmiB8S1nlmiBSg/oR0AMgGJBuBcAMcZwN74Q5ymtOwB nSrZBKzXOJ3rewBsZGXoainDzTx+ER+WiPmcAODbeyI+jF/m4YmREsIdf+1hBWAqzKLRBfRRVg+w 0vgOUKViHWCROxqAngJ2CtSUtAOADzd9XNaETpvqdTpNzqSxiS8QM+AUSzhFBCJwrfrvPMBNx0ju IzrsP0wtMOfh8nfFbQKjKLcJXGUSvwEvdQblLLyOskqxHSJ6zg9m1i8j0+KcSUSo6oq3VcaupbqA 7W3Gr3nYgd3u9RR4zQPqJ3xLCV/z4HXB+1CsGXgSFfmy+Nex6+UHo3E3IT4aF9vBfjdKcUsDriJi Ma8OKiLz6hAmIuoo84CIcRvZLyegTCRwvc7zy88POjTfO2tyoxoAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:I6PrtsOQHajp71y9rHVvPNalZFA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173376 Archived-At: First, thanks for your work Nic! Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Nic Ferrier >> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > >> Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2014 09:24:32 +0100 >> >> > How is this different from using the HTML produced by makeinfo? >> >> I think it's clear that it's a different, more capable viewer for the >> trade off of using JavaScript. > > Can you elaborate about the differences, feature- and > functionality-wise? Because all I see is HTML pages with hyperlinks, > which is what you get with "makeinfo --html". I'm sure I'm missing > something, but what? There is some more info here: https://github.com/nicferrier/gnudoc-js/ But I am still a bit puzzled about the exact purpose. But it seems the program is a "front-end" to the output of makeinfo --html. Is that correct? Is the goal of the exercise to replicate the Info reader in the browser? Again thanks, Rasmus -- Hvor meget poesi tror De kommer ud af et glas isvand?