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not kiddies (Score:1)
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He just said that their site looks like a fly by night site that was put together by kiddies. He's got a point. Although I must admit that I like the current design a more than the old one. That one looked like they ripped the artwork from some Soviet propaganda.
Of course the people who are well-known at ActiveState are known for their programming abilities, and not their graphical prowess.
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Incidentally, there is a documentation link right on the main PDK page ("resources" on the right side) and typing "documentation" into the search box on any activestate.com page brought back hundreds of results.
I don't know what local docs they bundle, but %%HTMLDIR%% looks like a Makefile target or similar, so maybe some kind of build/install procedure hadn't been run yet. But that's only a guess.
In short, I think the rumors of ActiveStat
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You're right that documentation is on the right if you visit the right page. I don't know about you, but I tend to look for documentation on the top and left. Where normal sites put it. As he described, there is no link to documentation on the places where you expect the nav bar to be.
Type documentation into the search bar, yup, lots of results. But if you look at his post he gives the link to the search result that he got [activestate.com]. Try that link, and no results. Why not? Well staring carefully at t
Re:not kiddies (Score:1)
Note which high-bit character strayed into his URI: it says %A0, byte value 160, which, if interpreted as Latin-1, is
U+00A0, otherwise known as NO-BREAK SPACE and declared in HTML as . Ring a bell? If so, you can tell why he missed it…Reply to This
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