- We now display an "Edit this Page" and a "Report Bugs" button on every page
when rendering the preliminary mode site.
- Optimized the SVG imagery for smaller size and thus faster download & parsing.
This removes two very large dependencies which ends up making
each page load considerably faster, especially on mobile. Plus,
not using bootstrap actually made several things simpler throughout
the site's logic.
- Refactor script code into smaller more manageable files.
- Use consistent naming style in script code.
- Stop using Bootstrap's dropdowns and popovers in favor of custom implementation.
There are only a few uses of Bootstrap to purge before I can ditch
the dependency on the Bootstrap & JQuery libraries, which will speed
up page loads.
- Find a few more static strings that should come from the xlation
dictionary instead.
- Fix ordering of the new "Older Notes" entry in the release notes
area to ensure it is always last.
- Fix layout issue with narrow widths clipping a few characters off the left
edge of the page.
- Remove offending href syntax leading to bogus complaints from htmlproofer.
- Upgrade from UglifyJS to Babel as a JS preprocessor. This lets me use modern ES6 syntax
in the JS code.
- Update JS code to leverage ES6.
- Remove most dependencies on JQuery for faster & smaller code. Once I remove the
dependency on the Bootstrap library, then the dependency on JQuery will also completely
go away.
Martin Taillefer
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