Switch away from js generated everything

[est31]

I see that this rewrite uses ember. That's pretty sad as it means that when you open a link, a non trivial amount of javascript has to run before the browser can even start to render the page. I don't demand a js free mode (as in, all features working with js disabled), just ember is using js for a purpose that user agent scripting wasn't actually designed for, and therefore the end result sucks pretty bad.

As a negative example, I just look at crates.io, which has heavy use of js modifying the DOM as well, and this leads to weird bugs like rust-lang/crates.io#306, as well as laggy behaviour in general.

I know this is right now a bit hand wavery, but I wanted to point this out early in the process where a switch is hopefully still very cheap.

[est31]

hmmm from IRC @QuietMisdreavus told me that the goal was to get web developers to work on the tool. This is in fact a great idea! Will it be the default output mode of cargo doc though?

[steveklabnik]

This is far too early to have real discussions about this, and it shouldn't be in an issue anyway.

Yes, the idea is that you can have a non-JS renderer if you want to.