On Monday, 25 June 2012 at 14:59:35 UTC, Kevin wrote:
On 25/06/12 10:43, nazriel wrote:
Hi!
I am polishing up this stuff:
http://dlang.dzfl.pl/
It would allow to run examples from http://dlang.org directly
in
web-browser.
Something like http://dpaste.dzfl.pl, but integrated with dlang
website itself.
I would like to ask you about your opinions and advises.
There are couple things I can't make my mind on.
First, should standard input and command line arguments be
constant
defined in hidden html fields, or should we allow user to pick
their own?
It would allow for more freedom and experience but on
other-hand it
would bloat too much website. Whats your opinion?
Another thing are examples itself. As you may noticed I
modified some
of em too give some experience in browser, for example, I've
added
writeln blocks in Power section.
What should we do with 'em? Examples to run properly requires
main
functions, and loads of examples doesn't have them. Should we
adjust
those examples or leave them alone? Another thing are examples
that
doesn't return or display anything.
Like assert(foo !is null); examples. Should we make them
throw, add
some writelns or leave them alone?
I would love to hear your opinion on those.
Best regards,
Damian 'nazriel' Ziemba
What I am picturing is having the code samples just like we do
now with
a little "Try It!" button in the corner. When you click it it
pops up a
full version with all of the necessary wrapping and lets you
run it and
mess around. For the stdin I would have a little pane that
can slide
out. This might be a little more javascript than you were
imagining but
I could help you with that if you want.
This way you keep it pretty while providing a full-featured
environment. Also, have you considered using the ideone api to
save
yourself all of the security issues or is there something wrong
with
what they provide?
I don't think that people are going to run every sample and
this is why
I think it is better to hide most of the features and I don't
think
people will mind the small delay that another tab or javascript
window
takes to open.
Kevin
Hmm, pop-up approach isn't that bad, but IMHO it isn't too
professional approach in now-days. Popups are also IMHO quite
annoying and ugly. But of course thank you for suggestion!
In overall I wanted to keep things simple, as you see, not much
changed excluding adding 2 buttons, and line numbers on left-side
(which anyways, can be disabled, well, also example itself can be
edited :p)
About security, that isn't an issue. Examples uses
http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/ API to run them. Dpaste service itself
cares about security. Why not use IDEONE? They have really
outdated D compiler and I don't have possibility to change
anything in it. For example I've added Command Line arguments to
http://dpaste.dzlf.pl to allow smooth run of some examples (like
word-count) and I can change/add anything at anytime while
examples may requires something.
