This is an attempt to balance three problems, each of which would
be violated by a simpler implementation:
- A type alias should show all the `impl` blocks for the target
type, and vice versa, if they're applicable. If nothing was
done, and rustdoc continues to match them up in HIR, this
would not work.
- Copying the target type's docs into its aliases' HTML pages
directly causes far too much redundant HTML text to be generated
when a crate has large numbers of methods and large numbers
of type aliases.
- Using JavaScript exclusively for type alias impl docs would
be a functional regression, and could make some docs very hard
to find for non-JS readers.
- Making sure that only applicable docs are show in the
resulting page requires a type checkers. Do not reimplement
the type checker in JavaScript.
So, to make it work, rustdoc stashes these type-alias-inlined docs
in a JSONP "database-lite". The file is generated in `write_shared.rs`,
included in a `<script>` tag added in `print_item.rs`, and `main.js`
takes care of patching the additional docs into the DOM.
The format of `trait.impl` and `type.impl` JS files are superficially
similar. Each line, except the JSONP wrapper itself, belongs to a crate,
and they are otherwise separate (rustdoc should be idempotent). The
"meat" of the file is HTML strings, so the frontend code is very simple.
Links are relative to the doc root, though, so the frontend needs to fix
that up, and inlined docs can reuse these files.
However, there are a few differences, caused by the sophisticated
features that type aliases have. Consider this crate graph:
```text
---------------------------------
| crate A: struct Foo<T> |
| type Bar = Foo<i32> |
| impl X for Foo<i8> |
| impl Y for Foo<i32> |
---------------------------------
|
----------------------------------
| crate B: type Baz = A::Foo<i8> |
| type Xyy = A::Foo<i8> |
| impl Z for Xyy |
----------------------------------
```
The type.impl/A/struct.Foo.js JS file has a structure kinda like this:
```js
JSONP({
"A": [["impl Y for Foo<i32>", "Y", "A::Bar"]],
"B": [["impl X for Foo<i8>", "X", "B::Baz", "B::Xyy"], ["impl Z for Xyy", "Z", "B::Baz"]],
});
```
When the type.impl file is loaded, only the current crate's docs are
actually used. The main reason to bundle them together is that there's
enough duplication in them for DEFLATE to remove the redundancy.
The contents of a crate are a list of impl blocks, themselves
represented as lists. The first item in the sublist is the HTML block,
the second item is the name of the trait (which goes in the sidebar),
and all others are the names of type aliases that successfully match.
This way:
- There's no need to generate these files for types that have no aliases
in the current crate. If a dependent crate makes a type alias, it'll
take care of generating its own docs.
- There's no need to reimplement parts of the type checker in
JavaScript. The Rust backend does the checking, and includes its
results in the file.
- Docs defined directly on the type alias are dropped directly in the
HTML by `render_assoc_items`, and are accessible without JavaScript.
The JSONP file will not list impl items that are known to be part
of the main HTML file already.
[JSONP]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSONP
This commit makes three changes for consistency and readability:
- It shows the sibling navigation on module pages. It's weird
that it didn't work before, and is inconsistent with everything
else (even Crates have sibling navigation with other Crates).
- It hides the "In [parent]" header if it's the same as the
current crate, and if there's no other header between them.
We need to keep it on modules and types, since they have
their own header and data between them, and we don't want
to show siblings under a header implying that they're children.
- It adds a margin to deal with the headers butting directly into
the branding lockup.
This should result in a layout for the actual standard library,
when built on CI, that looks like this:
_____
/ \ std
| R | 1.74.0-nightly
\_____/
(203c57dbe 2023-09-17)
Having the whole version as one string caused it to flex wrap,
because the sidebar isn't wide enough to fit the whole thing.
This commit changes the layout to something a bit less "look at my logo!!!111"
gigantic, and makes it clearer where clicking the logo will actually take you.
It also means the crate name is persistently at the top of the sidebar, even
when in a sub-item page, and clicking that name takes you back to the root.
| | Short crate name | Long crate name |
|---------|------------------|-----------------|
| Root | ![short-root] | ![long-root]
| Subpage | ![short-subpage] | ![long-subpage]
[short-root]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/assets/1593513/fe2ce102-d4b8-44e6-9f7b-68636a907f56
[short-subpage]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/assets/1593513/29501663-56c0-4151-b7de-d2637e167125
[long-root]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/assets/1593513/f6a385c0-b4c5-4a9c-954b-21b38de4192f
[long-subpage]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/assets/1593513/97ec47b4-61bf-4ebe-b461-0d2187b8c6cahttps://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-4/logo-lockup/image/index.htmlhttps://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-4/logo-lockup/crossbeam_channel/index.htmlhttps://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-4/logo-lockup/adler/struct.Adler32.htmlhttps://notriddle.com/rustdoc-html-demo-4/logo-lockup/crossbeam_channel/struct.Sender.html
This improves visual information density (the construct with the logo and
crate name is *shorter* than the logo on its own, because it's not
square) and navigation clarity (we can now see what clicking the Rust logo
does, specifically).
Compare this with the layout at [Phoenix's Hexdocs] (which is what this
proposal is closely based on), the old proposal on [Internals Discourse]
(which always says "Rust standard library" in the sidebar, but doesn't do the
side-by-side layout).
[Phoenix's Hexdocs]: https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/1.7.7/overview.html
[Internals Discourse]: https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/poc-of-a-new-design-for-the-generated-rustdoc/11018
In newer versions of rustdoc, the crate name and version are always shown in
the sidebar, even in subpages. Clicking the crate name does the same thing
clicking the logo always did: return you to the crate root.
While this actually takes up less screen real estate than the old layout on
desktop, it takes up more HTML. It's also a bit more visually complex.
I could do what the Internals POC did and keep the vertically stacked layout
all the time, instead of doing a horizontal stack where possible. It would
take up more screen real estate, though.
This design is lifted almost verbatim from Hexdocs. It seems to work for them.
[`opentelemetry_process_propagator`], for example, has a long application name.
[`opentelemetry_process_propagator`]: https://hexdocs.pm/opentelemetry_process_propagator/OpentelemetryProcessPropagator.html
Has anyone written the rationale on why the Rust logo shows up on projects that
aren't the standard library? If we turned it off on non-standard crates by
default, it would line wrap crate names a lot less often.
Or maybe we should encourage crate authors to include their own logo more
often? It certainly helps give people a better sense of "place."
I'm not sure of anything that directly follows up this one. Plenty of other
changes could be made to improve the layout, like
* coming up with a less cluttered way to do disclosure (there's a lot of `[-]`
on the page)
* doing a better job of separating lateral navigation (vec::Vec links to
vec::IntoIter) and the table of contents (vec::Vec links to vec::Vec::new)
* giving readers more control of how much rustdoc hows them, and giving doc
authors more control of how much it generates
* better search that reduces the need to browse
But those are mostly orthogonal, not future possibilities unlocked by this change.
Helps with #90929
This changes the search results, specifically, when there's more than
one impl with an associated item with the same name. For example,
the search queries `simd<i8> -> simd<i8>` and `simd<i64> -> simd<i64>`
don't link to the same function, but most of the functions have the
same names.
This change should probably be FCP-ed, especially since it adds a new
anchor link format for `main.js` to handle, so that URLs like
`struct.Vec.html#impl-AsMut<[T]>-for-Vec<T,+A>/method.as_mut` redirect
to `struct.Vec.html#method.as_mut-2`. It's a strange design, but there
are a few reasons for it:
* I'd like to avoid making the HTML bigger. Obviously, fixing this bug
is going to add at least a little more data to the search index, but
adding more HTML penalises viewers for the benefit of searchers.
* Breaking `struct.Vec.html#method.len` would also be a disappointment.
On the other hand:
* The path-style anchors might be less prone to link rot than the numbered
anchors. It's definitely less likely to have URLs that appear to "work",
but silently point at the wrong thing.
* This commit arranges the path-style anchor to redirect to the numbered
anchor. Nothing stops rustdoc from doing the opposite, making path-style
anchors the default and redirecting the "legacy" numbered ones.
Designing a good hover microinteraction is a matter of guessing
user intent from what are, literally, vague gestures. In this case,
guessing if hovering in our out of the tooltip base is intentional
or not.
To figure this out, a few different techniques are used:
* When the mouse pointer enters a tooltip anchor point, its hitbox
is grown on the bottom, where the popover is/will appear. This was
already there before this commit: search "hover tunnel" in
rustdoc.css for the implementation.
* This commit adds a delay when the mouse pointer enters the base
anchor, in case the mouse pointer was just passing through and the
user didn't want to open it.
* This commit also adds a delay when the mouse pointer exits the
tooltip's base anchor or its popover, before hiding it.
* A fade-out animation is layered onto the pointer exit delay to
immediately inform the user that they successfully dismissed the
popover, while still providing a way for them to cancel it if
it was a mistake and they still wanted to interact with it.
* No animation is used for revealing it, because we don't want
people to try to interact with an element while it's in the
middle of fading in: either they're allowed to interact with
it while it's fading in, meaning it can't serve as mistake-
proofing for opening the popover, or they can't, but they
might try and be frustrated.
See also:
* https://www.nngroup.com/articles/timing-exposing-content/
* https://www.nngroup.com/articles/tooltip-guidelines/
* https://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown
* There's no need to call `history.replaceState` right before
calling `searchState.hideResults`, which already does it.
* There's no need to implement hiding search results when that
is already implemented.
Fixes the desktop scrolling weirdness mentioned in
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/98775#issuecomment-1182575603
As described in the MDN page for this property:
* The current Firefox ESR is 102, and the first Firefox version
to support this feature is 59.
* The current Chrome version 112, and the first version to support
this is 63.
* Edge is described as having a minor bug in `none` mode, but we
use `contain` mode anyway, so it doesn't matter.
* Safari 16, released September 2022, is the last browser to
add this feature, and is also the oldest version we officially
support.
This functionality is already tested in `hash-item-expansion.goml`,
and was implemented twice:
* First, in code that ran at load time and at hash change:
917cdd295d
* Later, the hash change event handler was itself run at load time,
and the code handling both cases diverged in implementation,
though their behavior still matches pretty well:
f66a331335
* Stop checking `func` in `onEach`. It's always hard-coded right
at the call site, so there's no point.
* Use the ternary operator in a few spots where it makes sense.
* No point in making `onEach` store `arr.length` in a variable if
it's only used once anyway.
To avoid generating a FOUC at startup, this commit uses `document.write` to
load the stylesheet initially.
Co-Authored-By: Guillaume Gomez <guillaume1.gomez@gmail.com>
This prevents some strange blur-event-related bugs with the "?" command
by ensuring that the focus remains in the same spot when the settings
area closes.
rustdoc: remove `docblock` class from notable trait popover
This commit builds on b72de9be74, which removes the `docblock` class from the All Items page, and 9457380ac9, which removes the `docblock` class from the item decl.
Fixes#92974
rustdoc: remove unnecessary DOM class `h1.fqn`
It's misleading. The main heading sometimes isn't an fully qualified name at all.
It's also redundant. It's always a child of `div.main-heading`, so just use that.
This commit builds on b72de9be74, which removes
the `docblock` class from the All Items page, and
9457380ac9, which removes the `docblock` class
from the item decl.
Fixes#92974
It's misleading. The main heading sometimes isn't an fully qualified name at all.
It's also redundant. It's always a child of `div.main-heading`, so just use that.
