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Bug 17898 - Index of methods and IDL attributes
Summary: Index of methods and IDL attributes
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard: tools
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2012-07-18 07:14 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2015-08-30 11:57 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:14:30 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 13883 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2011-08-24 09:09:00 +0000

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 #0   contributor@whatwg.org                          2011-08-24 09:09:47 +0000 
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Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/timers.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#custom-handlers
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#custom-handlers

Comment:
Make "registerProtocolHandler" and "registerContentHandler" appear in the TOC

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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-10-12 19:04:44 +0000 
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Why? Or even, how? The section title would be really long if it included both those method names, not to mention the other method names defined in that section...
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 #2   Simon Pieters                                   2011-10-13 05:02:04 +0000 
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Why? To make it easier to find (some sections have the relevant API in the ToC, e.g. designMode). But I guess that applies to any method. Maybe we should have an index of APIs as an appendix or something.
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 #3   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-10-24 18:20:13 +0000 
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An index would make a lot of sense.

An IDL index would be something we can completely automate. The IDL blocks are computer-readable, and for each IDL field there's a corresponding <dfn>. If someone can hack together a quick script that just scans all the IDL blocks and extracts out all the methods and fields and forms an alphabetical index of them, I'd be happy to add that script to my publishing pipeline.
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 #4   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2011-10-25 05:13:43 +0000 
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(Please reassign to me if you have such a script.)
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Comment 1 Michael[tm] Smith 2015-08-30 11:57:14 UTC
Moved to https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/55