On Sunday, September 15, 2013 10:47:06 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > On 9/15/13 12:53 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > > On Sunday, 15 September 2013 at 07:14:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Check out the new navigation at > >> http://erdani.com/d/phobos/std_array.html. The ugly "Jump to" list as > >> the top gets replaced by a slick drop-down. Once you jump to a name, > >> you can go back by pressing the up arrow on the right or simply go to > >> top. > > > > I'm not sure this is an improvement, functionally. Finding the right > > item in much faster when you can see all items at once, and not lined up > > on only one direction. > > Not sure what that's based on, but at least for me that only works up to > a few words. For large modules that's hopeless. Just look at: > > http://dlang.org/phobos/std_datetime.html > > Can you really pick up the desired term? I think > http://erdani.com/d/phobos/std_datetime.html is a real improvement over > that (it also reduces the size of the list to the top-level ones, which > helps).
It's an improvement because it shows the top-level symbols only rather than putting all of the symbols inside of the types at the top level like the current links do. The fact that it's a drop-down hurts rather than helps. - Jonathan Davis
