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Re: HTML-Info design
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: HTML-Info design |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Dec 2014 14:06:30 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> As another data point: quite a few people here claimed that Texinfo 5's
>> drop of compilation speed was a deal breaker for them.
>>
>> Compilation speed. And you are working on a replacement for an
>> interactive application that is supposed to tie into one's editing
>> workflow. And it is supposed to tie into Emacs workflows by engaging an
>> Emacs-based HTML browser.
>>
>> That's a long long uphill battle. So one should very much focus on
>> thinking about game-changing workflow features implementable in the HTML
>> backend that are not accessible from Info.
>
> I don't really get this. We're not replacing texinfo. We're replacing
> Info.
>
> We're replacing Info so you can generate documentation in multiple
> authorial formats, easily write converters for your authorial format of
> choice into one Info and have it displayed the same.
>
> So I don't think compilation speed is much of a problem.
Exactly. People were annoyed enough at compilation speed to call it a
game changer, but it is really of very little relevance when compared
with raw interactive response. And raw interactive response is where
you have to compete with Info.
With a crowd that already calls a change in *compilation* speed from
Texinfo 4 to Texinfo 5 inacceptable, getting InfoHTML to acceptable
interactive performance when compared with Info is going to be quite the
hard pitch.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: HTML-Info design, (continued)
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/27
- Re: HTML-Info design, David Kastrup, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Steinar Bang, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, David Kastrup, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Richard Stallman, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Stefan Monnier, 2014/12/27
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, David Kastrup, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2014/12/28
- Re: HTML-Info design, Nic Ferrier, 2014/12/28