Re: Creating API pages

On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Scott Rowe <scottrowe@google.com> 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.
>

That was an odd bug. I just fixed it (although I'm not entirely sure how;
the change I made should have netted to a no-op).

>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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