Better late than never (the last couple weeks have been very
busy):
On Tuesday, 23 July 2013 at 21:00:08 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It's true that they are based on HTML output. However, and this
is a big however, they need significantly different HTML output
than one puts on a web site. This is currently accomplished by
changing the macro definitions that Ddoc uses, and by carefully
recoding the Ddoc source to use those macros. While generating
ebooks is often billed as "just pipe your website HTML through
our converter program!" the reality is that you'll get more or
less utter garbage if you try that.
I've published several ebooks that also exist as web pages, so
I'm familiar with the process.
I don't entirely agree with this, although I understand where
you're coming from. The cost/benefit of settling this firmly
favours the costs, so I'll let it slide.
I assume this one is it?
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/320
I posted a response. (But in general, PR's that are flagged as
"We can’t automatically merge this pull request" tend to not
get much attention. Despite that, we can and should do better.)
Can you please make some PR's which illustrate your work in
converting it to HTML 5?
Well, I can't, as I've said a few times, because I was instructed
to wait for
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/271 to
get merged, which, I'm told, will shorten my workload
considerably. I realise, since complaining about it, that you've
commented on that PR. Maybe, if I have some time, I'll try to
tackle it so that it'll automerge (which is tricky because merges
are a moving target).
http://forum.dlang.org/post/[email protected]
has quite a few responses; more than most threads.
But I'm afraid that's analogous to saying "Whilst it is true that
we haven't come around to fix your collapsed roof, we've picked
up when you called more often than we have for other customers,
so I don't see what you're upset about."
The arguments were (I thought) well laid out in that thread and
responded to. Reasonable people can disagree - it doesn't mean
that one side is irrational.
My training is in business, not computer science. One learns in
business school that the successful companies satisfy the needs
of a particular market. When the customers' needs drift from what
the business produces - as invariably happens in almost all
markets - the business can either adapt to its changing
environment or invite competitors to do its job for them.
Therefore, regardless of how irrational your customers are, there
is often a benefit to giving them what they want.
