Re: [boost] Problem reading source code online

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-02 15:09:11

At 05:25 PM 3/26/2001, kevin_vanhorn_at_[hidden] wrote:

 >There appears to be a problem with the web server hosting the Boost
 >site.  When I read documentation online and click on links to header
 >files, the HTTP reply gives a type of "application/octet" instead of
 >"text/plain", with the result that my browser won't display the file
 >even though it is plain text.  This is extremely annoying.

I've reported this already to the hosting service without any luck.  The 
problem only shows on certain browsers.  I can reproduce it on Netscape 
3.03, for example, but not more modern Netscape or Microsoft browers under 
Windows.  That makes it hard to get the support folks' interest.

 >BTW, has anyone found a good way of printing out the Boost library
 >documentation?  It seems that nowadays everybody supplies
 >documentation only in HTML format, which is a problem for people like
 >me who don't want to be chained to the computer when they read.
 >(Yes, I know that you can laboriously print out a page at a time from
 >the browser.  This is slow, painful, and the result looks awful.)

Short term, it sometimes helps a bit to print from the browser via a 
PDFwriter, and then print the PDF.

Long term, XML looks like a possible answer, and there has been some 
discussion of that on this list.  Also some private discussion.  Matt 
Austern has been using the technique to generate the C++ Standards 
Committee's Library issues lists, and he is reporting good results.

--Beman