Normally, I'd file an on-line criticism of the docs, but I can't get there, and this is the closest means I have to doing so.
I was trying to look up something about NSAttributedStrings and found that the usual link led me to a page that no longer has a search box, links to docs, etc. My BookMark has the URL: http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/navigation/index.html but it took me here, so apparently there's a redirect: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#navigation/index.html and by successive trimming (first of "index.html" and then of everything from the pound sign right) to try to get to something that works I tried this: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/ When I trim off more, removing the "mac/" it takes me to http://developer.apple.com/resources/ Trying links from there, merely takes me back to the same garbage. Page Description: There are no scroll bars. At the top, next to a display icon (white on dark blue), it says "Mac OS X Reference Library" in white letters on a dark blue background. To the right a ways in a sort of gray-blue on dark blue it has the Apple icon and the word Developer. To the right of that is what may be a ping-pong paddle or magnifying glass (the business end is sort of square with rounded corners or filets), but no text box in which to enter search specifications. Below the dark blue bar is a lighter gray-blue bar and below that a light-blue bar, all 3 are gradient shaded to give the appearance of an object thicker than at the top and bottom edges. At the bottom is another light-blue-gray bar. In between is white. Displaying the source shows a lot of defective MSFT Javascript. Examining this discloses the bizarre title Loading… There's some stuff about iPad and createTouch. Amongst the Javascript, I see that it's supposed to be creating and displaying some buttons, and at least one check-box, but they're nowhere to be seen on the page. When I backed out and tried my favorite search engine http://www.ixquick.com/ and tried clicking on some of what seemed appropriate links, I still got such essentially blank pages (blank in the sense that they did not display the NSAttributedString reference information). When I logged into my ADC to try to get to a forum to report the bug, it asked me to change a bunch of stuff, but was lacking valid options for app types, like Scientific, Engineering. After a couple rounds trying to get past that, I just clicked some random garbage. After a few tries, I managed to get to http://developer.apple.com/support/ and then http://developer.apple.com/support/mac/ the significant content of which is "Mac Developer Program The Mac Developer Program offers a range of technical resources and support for developers and IT professionals innovating with Mac OS X." Maybe it's the season; I noticed that another firm whose name begins with a Y just destroyed significant parts of their web site as part of their latest face-lift efforts. If you need someone to help repair it, I'm available, but my first 3 suggestions would be to do a few yanks/undos, or reload the backups from a month or two or three ago. It wasn't pretty (hasn't been pretty for years), but at least it worked. Next, let's get rid of all of the evil MSFT Javascript (the description is the same with and without Javascript enabled) and convert it all to PHP or Python or Perl, anything but Javascript and .asp. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
