[fpc-pascal] Web link to documentation

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> > > > I wonder how many entries in apache error log can be found for these links
> > > > prior to your posting. IOW, I wonder how many people equals "Most users".
> > > 
> > > I'm pretty sure there must be a few... ;-)
> > > 
> > > Other website examples (just to name a few):
> > >    doc.trolltech.com/
> > >    www.wxwidgets.org/docs/
> > >    java.sun.com/docs/
> > >    httpd.apache.org/docs/
> > >    docs.rubyonrails.org
> > >    docs.joomla.org
> > > 
> > > It's not like we need a new web page or anything, it's simply a
> > > '/docs/' alias that needs to be added to the web server or a new
> > > 'virtual' host (I think) setup for docs.freepascal.org.
> > 
> > docs.freepascal.org now points straight to the documentation page.
> 
> Not working yet here, but that could be dns propagation time. Anyway, I like
> this, I already had a button added to the firefox buttonbar.

I didn't update the zone version number yet, I'll do this. 
 
> Problem is only that it won't work for mirrors.

This is so, but unfortunately that can't be helped easily.

> 
> P.s. Speaking about docs: I saw the current documentation is still badly linked.
> (the next/prev links) I also retried myself using the most recent tex4ht
> updates (januari 2009), and failed again, the links are still borked, though
> i have a feeling they are slightly better.

I'm happy that you think they are better :-)

But as far as I'm concerned, this is a non-issue. 
The HTML version of the docs is still only a courtesy.

Michael.