On 1/25/15 4:42 AM, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote:
Here's another one:
The search box allows selecting between:
- Entire D Site
- Library reference
- Newsgroup archives
But where's the Language spec option?
It's missing due to how dlang.org is set up, and the limitations of
Google's site search feature. If you click on a link in the language
spec, like on Types, you'll notice that its URL has the page directly
under dlang.org, e.g. http://dlang.org/type.html.
In contrast, the standard library is in a subfolder (e.g.
http://dlang.org/phobos/std_algorithm.html) and the newsgroup archives
are in another subfolder. Being in a subfolder allows us to pass a
prefix parameter to Google's site search that will limit its results to
URLS with that prefix. Since the language reference isn't in a subfolder
there's no prefix for the language reference that doesn't also include
everything else in the site, and hence there's no option for Language Spec.
I don't know how hard it would be to put all the language spec pages
into their own subfolder, but doing so would allow us to add the
Language Spec option to the dropdown.
