- From: frozenice <frozenice@frozenice.de>
- Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:55:09 +0100
- To: public-webplatform@w3.org
- Message-ID: <509C2A3D.1070208@frozenice.de>
Hey Scott, the bug was that the "Property of" line wasn't there. I added it to Template:API_Object_Property. On 08.11.2012 22:38, Scott Rowe wrote: > 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 > > >
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