Idea: Show small badge to jump to newest version

[bluss]

Imagine you're browsing the slightly outdated docs of some project: https://docs.rs/regex/0.1.75/regex/

There could be a small badge that's visible in that case (maybe yellow or orange) that lets you jump to the current version (“Version 0.1.77 is the most recent release”).

It's important for this feature that the badge is not shown if you're already at the newest release.

Versioned links are going to be very useful, but this could be a small help if you have users arrive to stale docs via old links without them being aware of it.

[onur]

This is an awesome idea.

But where should I put this badge? Any suggestions?

And do you think docs.rs badges are enough? i.e: regex crate:

[bluss]

Something self-explanatory, like

[onur]

TBH this kinda looks ugly to me:

[bluss]

Location:

I was thinking it wants to be on every single documentation page, not just the crate root (again thinking of the case when you arrive through some external link or old bookmark). Maybe top right corner, above the Platform selector and the description? (Looking at this page as a random example (page))

[bluss]

I doesn't have to be those particular "badges". Just text with some background color to make it stand out just a small amount.

[onur]

I see.

Let me see what I can do without breaking page's minimalistic style and default look and feel.

[onur]

This is what I got after few tries, I think it looks cool:

[bluss]

Yeah that looks great

[Yamakaky]

Maybe more "Last version" than "Recent version". Or maybe something "you are seeing an outdated version, here to see the last"

[onur]

Since we got #58 I am planning to show only version number and a dropdown menu to all versions and if version isn't the latest version I will show it orange.

[bluss]

This is a crucial feature since old crate versions’ docs are placed high on google already.

[onur]

Since I introduced new navigation for rustdocs, it is more easy to add this warning. What do you think about this kind of warning? @bluss @Yamakaky

[bluss]

That looks perfect!

[bluss]

New narrower docs.rs header is very good, too.

[bluss]

Thanks a lot for implementing this!