Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Javadoc rethinking? Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:11:54 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <3b10d0bb-0307-4365-b762-d619fd3c608b@googlegroups.com> <50f6cebb$0$285$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1358374314 7574 84.45.235.129 (16 Jan 2013 22:11:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:11:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:21449 On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:14:50 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:00:58 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote: > >> On 1/16/2013 10:38 AM, bob smith wrote: >>> Am I the only one who thinks that maybe there ought to be some >>> improvements to the Javadoc process? >>> >>> I was just looking at a Javadoc for a DatePickerDialog, and it seemed >>> like it was missing something… that something was an image of an >>> example of the dialog. I think that would have been very helpful. >>> >>> However, Javadocs don't support images, and it is not necessarily good >>> for the crucial documentation to be mingled with the code. >> >> JavaDoc support HTML tags and I would assume they support IMG tag?? >> > Yes, the Javadocs docs say you can put both HTML and images in the doc- > files directory. > > The only I have is that the docs say you should not put a > section in package.html because this causes a conflict with HTML-tidy. > Fortunately, you can ignore this: running "tidy -m ..." generates a > <title> section which does not cause any problems with javadocs - at > least, none that I can see. > Sorry: that should read: "The only niggle I have is that the Javadocs docs say you should not put a <title> section in package.html because this causes a conflict with HTML-tidy." -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |