[Python-3000] [Python-Dev] Documentation switch imminent (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sat Aug 18 00:58:44 CEST 2007

Alexandre Vassalotti wrote:

On 8/17/07, Georg Brandl <g.brandl at gmx.net> wrote: [...] Ah, I didn't notice that index included all the documents. That explains the huge size increase. However, would it be possible to keep the indexes separated? I noticed that I find I want more quickly when the indexes are separated. Which is fine when you know which section to expect to find your content in. But let's retain an "all-documentation" index if we can, as this is particularly helpful to the newcomers who aren't that familiar with the structure of the documentation.

I've now removed leading spaces in the index output, and the character count is down to 850000.

Firefox, on my fairly recent machine, takes ~5 seconds rendering the index of the new docs from disk, compared to a fraction of a second for the old one. But you're right that rendering is slow there. It may be caused by the more complicated CSS... perhaps the index should be split up in several pages. I disabled CSS-support (with View->Page Style->No Style), but it didn't affect the initial rendering speed. However, scrolling was much faster without CSS. Probably because the positional calculations are more straightforward then.

regards Steve

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