On 28 May 2011, at 02:25, Kevin Wright wrote:
> 
> On May 28, 2011 1:39 AM, "Alexey Zinger" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Isn't that why we have doclets?  Personally, I rarely find current standard 
> > doclets lacking.
> >  
> 
> Not really, I'm thinking more along the lines of:
> 
> - JavaScript-based searching
> - full CSS layout
> - Redesigned look and feel
> - In-place expansion of a method definition when clicking on it to see more 
> detail
> - All of the above by default, not just a latent possibility for customising, 
> repeatedly, for each and every project
> - Something that might plausibly have been designed within the last decade
> - etc.
> 
have you looked at doclava?

   http://code.google.com/p/doclava/

it generates Android-style javadoc, such as:

   http://google-guice.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/javadoc/packages.html

though it's still a doclet, not a complete rewrite
> > Alexey
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> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Kevin Wright <[email protected]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 8:29 PM
> > Subject: [The Java Posse] JavaDoc due for an overhaul
> >
> > Looking over the new JavaFX 2.0 API, I couldn't help but notice how dated 
> > the JavaDoc format now looks.
> >
> > We started here: http://docstore.mik.ua/jdk/api/packages.html
> > and advanced to: http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/
> >
> > Then it all stopped, until...
> > we went from this: 
> > http://img.surfpack.com/img/thumbs/j/java.sun.com_favicon.jpg
> > to this: http://img.pho.to/img/thumbs/l/landingpad.oracle.com_favicon.jpg
> >
> >
> > Did innovation really stop at framesets?
> > Is a new favicon really the only change we can expect to JavaDoc?
> >
> > There's so much potential here for a revised design, some search 
> > capabilities, a spot of script even!
> > Am I alone in thinking this?
> >
> >
> >
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> > "My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we should not 
> > regard them as "lines produced" but as "lines spent": the current 
> > conventional wisdom is so foolish as to book that count on the wrong side 
> > of the ledger" ~ Dijkstra
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