Re: kawa web-site changes

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 11/10/2014 01:00 PM, Per Bothner wrote:
> Please take another look at http://per.bothner.com/tmp/kawa/index.html
> and compare it to http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/ .

Jamison Hope pointed out problems with browsing on an iPhone - which
I verified on our Android phones:

The logic for switching to single column mode doesn't work on phone browsers
(either Mobile Safari or Google Chrome on iPhone; Firefox or Chrome on Android).

The code would check if the window with is less than 700.  The problem is that the window size
as reported by JavaScript is 980 - bigger than the physical screen size.  The solution
is to also check screen.window.availWidth.

I updated  http://per.bothner.com/tmp/kawa/style/utils.js with this fix.
Please try the web-site on various devices and browsers.

An annoyance is that when you navigate to a page you have to scroll page all the links.
I don't know a good solution for that.  An alternative might be an explicit button
to show or hide the navigation bar.  I just discovered DocBook WebHelp, which does that:

http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/webhelp/docs/index.html

(DocBook WebHelp is conceptually similar to Kawa's web site, with an addition
that they generate a search index, which can be used off-line.  If this project
was available when I re-did the Kawa web site I would probably have used it.)
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