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Pátek duben 01, 2005

Gmail is just cool

Gmail amazed me again. Hope it's not an april fool's day joke, but they plan to go over 2GB per mailbox:

http://gmail.google.com/gmail/help/about_whatsnew.html

When talking about web usability I recall Gmail. It's incredible what they can do with a little bit of JavaScript and CSS. I've been doing PHP applications for 5 years... and the UI was so poor if I compare it with what they do.

Still I would have some suggestions what to improve. Maybe they could open their bug database to the world! Example: for deleting e-mails you use select box (actually you put them into trash). However for deleting spam you use a button (deletes forever). So I'm always searching for the select box on the spam page. Small issue but always annoys a bit. I know, I'm a terrible detailist :-)

Update: I have many invitations left so I'm willing to invite anybody from Sun to Gmail service if you want to try it. Write me if you are interested.

Generating Javadoc from JDK Sources

I've tried to build the JDK javadoc from sources according to Tor's suggestion. I've found the magical options somewhere on java.sun.com:

javadoc
-J-Xmx500M
-d docs
-use
-splitIndex
-windowtitle 'Java 2 Platform 5.0 API Specification'
-doctitle 'Java<sup><font size="-2">TM</font></sup> 2 Platform 5.0 API Specification'
-header '<b>Java 2 Platform </b><br><font size="-1">5.0</font>'
-bottom '<font size="-1"><a href="http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi">Submit a bug or 
feature</a><br><br>Java is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the US and other  
countries.<br>Copyright 1993-2004 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 901 San Antonio Road,<br>Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A. All 
Rights Reserved.</font>' 
-group "Core Packages" "java.*" 
-overview /home/src/overview.html 
-sourcepath /home/src 
java.applet java.lang <include all of the package names>

You need to put on the last line all packages from which you want to build javadocs, wildcards didn't help here. It works! You get the JDK javadoc without having to download anything extra. The tradeoffs are the speed of building, it really takes time. And some of the javadocs are missing for classes which don't have sources (security, etc.).

So now it's a question what is better - to let users build there javadocs on request like this or to increase the boundle size and give them full documentation including specs? A good topic for discussion, I guess.

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