Re: Creating API pages

Hi Alex,

When I visit the page,
apis/indexedDB/properties/direction<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis/indexedDB/properties/direction>,
no text (like "Property of apis/indexedDB/IDBCursor") appears on the page.
Nor does such text appear on the other properties pages of IDBCursor, even
though all of these pages do have "apis/indexedDB/IDBCursor" in the
Applies_to field.

The methods pages of IDBCursor, such as
apis/indexedDB/methods/advance<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/apis/indexedDB/methods/advance>do
have the text.

There is a bug somewhere. This is not a caching problem. I'll continue to
look into it. I appreciate your advice.

+Scott



On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Alex Komoroske <komoroske@google.com> wrote:

> Hi Scott,
>
> Thanks for writing this up!
>
> The organization is confusing me a bit since it bounces back and forth
> between between critiquing the current setup, proposing changes, and
> describing how to practically accomplish things in the current set-up (I
> think? It may describe how to accomplish things in the hypothetical
> future). Is there a crisp summary of the changes you propose?
>
> Also, note that your point about the Applies_to field not working for
> things like apis/indexedDB/IDBCursor is incorrect--it was actually just a
> caching problem. After you update the applies_to field, you often need to
> do a hard refresh (Edit > Refresh from within the page) of the page where
> you want it to show up.  We should document this somewhere, perhaps next to
> the Applies_to field itself.
>
> --Alex
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com> wrote:
>
>> When I sat down to document the process for creating API pages, using the
>> WebRTC documentation as the poster child, I found more questions than
>> answers. I realized that we did not have a good story here, so I did my
>> best to fill in the holes with a methodology that attempts to solve the
>> problems I found.
>>
>> You find this methodology described in WPD:Creating_API_pages<http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/WPD:Creating_API_pages>
>> .
>>
>> Note that it started out as a how-to for contributors, but quickly became
>> a proposal. So parts of it will read either way. Don't be alarmed. The
>> purpose of the document is to provide you with a methodology to try on as
>> you do what I did - test it out with your own API pages.
>>
>> As you do, please don't update the methodology in that page - let's
>> discuss it first. We can use this thread for the discussion.
>>
>> Thanks for your help!
>>
>> +Scott
>>
>>
>