Re: GDP: length/page-splitting of subsections

[Valentin Villenave]

2007/9/10, Graham Percival <address@hidden>:

> I'd certainly say so... but there's a large element of "the customer is
> always right" here.
>
> The all-in-one HTML page is **5 megs**.  I'm astounded that so many
> people (ie more than 0) are choosing to download that monster _every
> time_ they want to look something up in the docs.  That's a terrible
> waste of bandwidth, especially if you consider that the answer they're
> looking for is probably 1k of text and 100k of example picture.  To me,
> that sounds like a terrible indictment of how badly organized the docs are.

...Or how badly we need an integrated search tool.

> Let me phrase this question differently:
> - if you currently use the all-in-one HTML page, how could we organize
> the non-all-in-one docs such that you use them?

I'm absolutely fine with the one-tiny-subsection-per-page.
*I* like the current layout.

> Remember that you can search the docs online as part of LSR.

Yes, but I think this should definitely be implemented on lilypond.org itself.

Regards,
Valentin