New update to Ferrite has been released — mostly minor fixes, performance improvements, that sort of thing. It does also include a big update to the User Guide, now featuring a full search facility:
You can just type some text and it'll search for it throughout the guide — but it'll also suggest chapters or keywords you might be interested in:
The User Guide used to be written in raw HTML, but that got increasingly difficult to manage due to all the variations (iPhone/iPad, iOS 12/13, print version etc). Now, it's written in an unusual way — in #SwiftLang of all things, using some similar techniques to SwiftUI:
It’s not as clean as, say, Markdown. But it’s a lot cleaner than HTML, and supports lots of specialised features, like chunks that only appear on iPad or iPhone, buttons that use native images (SF Symbols) where available. And is also available as data for the search engine.
Ugh, tweeted the wrong image, but now if I delete it, it'll break the thread.
I meant to include the one I’d annotated:
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