Alex Perry wrote:
On 06 September 2012 18:54 Robert Ramey [mailto:ramey@rrsd.com] wrote
According to http://www.boost.org/development/requirements.html#Documentation " The format for documentation should be HTML, and should not require an advanced browser or server-side extensions. Style sheets are acceptable. ECMAScript/JavaScript is not acceptable."
Not sure quite why such a explicit refusal of javascript but I imagine there were (at least) good reasons for this so may be worth some discussion to see if the reasons are still extant before doing any work.
That is/was the original policy from many years ago. In the case of the navigators for serialzation and io streams, no one has requested enforcement of this policy. Basically this should be modified to permit javascript compatible with know browsers. BUT - if the "navigator" is factored out as a seperate, optional, boost book compatible component, the original policy isn't violated any more as the original boost documentation web pages wouldn't contain any javascript. Maybe another reason why this would be a good idea. Robert Ramey
Alex