Changes to look and feel of javadoc generated API pages in JDK 8

[Jonathan Gibbons]

On 11/06/2013 05:26 PM, David Holmes wrote:
> On 7/11/2013 7:43 AM, Bhavesh Patel wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>         Based on the feedback received on the new UI implementation 
>> in JDK 7 javadoc, we have made some minor changes to look and feel of 
>> the API pages generated by javadoc in JDK 8. The JDK API 
>> documentation pages will be using DejaVu font. A sample build, using 
>> the DejaVu fonts, can be found at 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpatel/docs/dejaVu/api/. Non-JDK API 
>> documentation pages that are generated by the user of the javadoc 
>> tool will be using non-DejaVu fonts as specified in the 
>> stylesheet.css file. A sample build can be found at 
>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~bpatel/docs/api/.
>>         Please provide any feedback, that you might have, on these 
>> new look and feel changes in both the versions.
>
> Realizing you can't please everyone ... how can I tell if I am using 
> the intended fonts or a fallback? To me this looks awful compared to 
> existing JDK 7 docs. The font is blurry when larger/bold. The heading 
> font (for Parameters, Returns etc) seems to be smaller than the font 
> that follows it.
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>> Regards,
>> Bhavesh.
>>

Perhaps Bhavesh could post a couple of screenshots of typical pages as a 
reference for what the pges should look like.

-- Jon