Link to JSON copy of character reference names broken

[scottmacpherson]

After the "Named character references" section in Chapter 10.2 (http://developers.whatwg.org/named-character-references.html), there is a link to http://developers.whatwg.org/entities.json. Selecting this link returns a 404 not found error.

[benschwarz]

It looks as though assets like the entities.json file are never transferred over to developers.whatwg.org in the compile scripts. Definitely fixable… I'll see what I can do.

[samirgunic]

I was just visiting WHATWG website today and I discovered that this link is broken. I was about to open a new issue when I saw this one. I see this issue has been open for over a year now. So how is it going? Can we expect to see some progress any time soon? How long does it take to fix a broken link?...

[benschwarz]

@samirgunic The site is auto-generated from content in a 5mb HTML file published Hixie. From there its scripted to pull it apart and generate the site that you get to use.

If you or someone are able to patch the issue, I'd love to review your PR — I'm simply not in a position to fix an issue on a site that I don't even use.

[pjstirling]

I tried to give fixing this a go, but I got stuck with ruby dependencies. All that's really necessary is to change the link with href "entities.json" -> "https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/entities.json"

[domenic]

Good news! We've revamped the developer's edition and now it syncs automatically with the source spec. It's at a new URL, https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/. (We are working to set up a redirect.)

The new version has a working link: see https://html.spec.whatwg.org/dev/named-characters.html. So, let me close this.