Rustdoc: Remove link on slice brackets #91778
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I am personally strongly in favour of this change, however it's not "small" so maybe we should ensure that the team agrees with this change before approving it? I opened a discussion on zulip here. |
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I don't think it's clear that this is an improvement; since rustdoc has the feature for ages I think we should lean on the side of not changing it. |
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…, r=jsha rustdoc: remove link on slice brackets This is rust-lang#91778, take two. Fixes rust-lang#91173 The reason I'm reevaluating this change is rust-lang#97668, which makes fully-generic slices link to the slice docs page. This fixes some downsides in the original PR, where `Box<[T]>`, for example, was not linked to the primitive.slice.html page. In this PR, the `[T]` inside is still a link. The other major reason for wanting to reevaluate this is the changed color scheme. When this feature was first introduced in rustdoc, primitives were a different color from structs and enums. This way, eagle-eyed users could figure out that the square brackets were separate links from the structs inside. Now, all types have the same color, so a significant fraction of users won't even know the links are there unless they pay close attention to the status bar or use an accessibility tool that lists all links on the page.
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…, r=jsha rustdoc: remove link on slice brackets This is rust-lang#91778, take two. Fixes rust-lang#91173 The reason I'm reevaluating this change is rust-lang#97668, which makes fully-generic slices link to the slice docs page. This fixes some downsides in the original PR, where `Box<[T]>`, for example, was not linked to the primitive.slice.html page. In this PR, the `[T]` inside is still a link. The other major reason for wanting to reevaluate this is the changed color scheme. When this feature was first introduced in rustdoc, primitives were a different color from structs and enums. This way, eagle-eyed users could figure out that the square brackets were separate links from the structs inside. Now, all types have the same color, so a significant fraction of users won't even know the links are there unless they pay close attention to the status bar or use an accessibility tool that lists all links on the page.
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Fixes #91173
Demo:
https://rustdoc.crud.net/jsha/no-slice-link/std/string/struct.String.html
https://rustdoc.crud.net/jsha/no-slice-link/std/vec/struct.Vec.html
https://rustdoc.crud.net/jsha/no-slice-link/std/io/trait.Read.html
https://rustdoc.crud.net/jsha/no-slice-link/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html
r? @GuillaumeGomez