Re: Creating API pages

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:
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>     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
>
>
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>     On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com <mailto:scottrowe@google.com>> wrote:
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>         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>.
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>         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!
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>         +Scott
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