| Chris Page 2005-09-04, 3:55 am |
| I am happy to announce a major update to the online Dylan Reference
Manual, the core definition of the Dylan programming language and its
standard library:
<http://www.gwydiondylan.org/books/drm/>
An overview of the changes:
- There is now a complete, hierarchical navigation area on the left,
available on all pages, which provides faster navigation and context
for the current page.
- I've gotten rid of the navigation button images and replaced them
with text, which scales and can be antialiased.
- The overall design is (hopefully) easier to use, more complete and
more attractive-looking.
- The content more closely resembles the printed DRM. I've placed
chapter/section headers at the top of each page, as in the book. I've
updated the layout and typography to both resemble the book more
closely and to make it more readable.
- I've cleaned up some of the XHTML and CSS and made it more compatible
with more browsers, especially Firefox. Note that the DRM does not
render well with Internet Explorer, primarily because that browser does
not implement some important CSS features such as "fixed positioning",
which is used to place the navigation area on the left. (I find it
looks best in Apple's Safari browser, which seems to have the fewest
bugs related to XHTML+CSS as used in the online DRM.)
As always, I hope this update makes the online DRM serve as an even
better reference for those interested in the language and standard
library, and I am happy to receive any feedback you may have so I can
continue to improve it. Please post to comp.lang.dylan, or email me if
you prefer (remove "*NOSPAM*" from my email address).
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Chris Page - Software Wrangler - Dylan Pundit
Open Source Dylan Compilers: <http://www.gwydiondylan.org/>
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