RFR: JDK-8241693, The paragraphs in the help page should not be in a <ul>

Hannes Wallnoefer HANNES.WALLNOEFER at ORACLE.COM
Tue Mar 31 17:41:51 UTC 2020


Am 31.03.2020 um 18:58 schrieb Jonathan Gibbons <jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com>:
> With respect to the line height, it is hard to know how much the appearance was intentional, and how much was accidental side effects of setting the increased line height for some other reason.  That being said, Mercurial annotations to the rescue! The line-height was set back in 2013 in JDK-8016549: jdk7 javadocs are hard to read.
> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016549 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8016549>
> The bug is about the content of the Method Summary and Field Summary, and does not cite the help page at all.
> 
Interesting, as this goes to show how reusing generic CSS classes in a lot of places causes unintended visual changes elsewhere when trying to change one specific detail.
> So, for now, I'm inclined to go with the new appearance, using your words: "the new look is the way normal text is supposed to be spaced."
> 
Agreed.

Hannes
> -- Jon
> 

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