javadoc style question

Kumar Srinivasan kumar.x.srinivasan at oracle.com
Mon Nov 10 15:26:40 UTC 2014


Curiosity question: But why only this specific page ? All other pages 
look ok ?

Kumar


On 11/7/2014 2:04 PM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
> Yes. It does look different. There is no particular reason for the difference that I can think of. This is a part of the 2 different UI styles that Jeff Hoffman's team designed and was approved by Mark. But I think it should be using the standard serif font. I will file it as a P4 RFE.
>
> Regards,
> Bhavesh.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com
> To: javadoc-dev at openjdk.java.net
> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2014 11:01:47 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
> Subject: javadoc style question
>
> Bhavesh,
>
> Check out this page:
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/reflect/InvocationHandler.html#invoke-java.lang.Object-java.lang.reflect.Method-java.lang.Object:A-
>
> Look at the large paragraphs for the Parameters, Returns and Throws
> sections.
>
> Is there are good reason why the paragraph bodies are in monospace
> format?  Would it make more sense to use the standard serif body font here?
>
> Is this worth an RFE in JBS?
>
> -- Jon



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