docs: new design for the documentation site (#5934)

* docs: new design for the documentation site

Apply the brand to the Material for MkDocs site: Inter and JetBrains Mono
served by the site (upright and real italic), brand colours, blue header band
with the syntax pattern, wordmark in the header, new home page (hero, cards,
animated feature tour), 404 page, polish for tabs, search, footer, focus
rings, tables and code blocks, and theme features (code copy, previous/next
footer, TOC follow, search suggestions).

Draw the number railroad diagram, the parser callback events and the iterator
illustrations as inline SVGs that follow the light and dark scheme. The
generator scripts are in docs/mkdocs/scripts/figures; the feature slideshow
(json-light.svg, json-dark.svg, replacing json.gif on the home page) is built
by docs/mkdocs/scripts/slideshow. Decision nodes in five flowcharts become
hexagons, which need far less room.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: add figures, table captions and a macro chooser

- Figures with numbered captions: SAX stepper, json_view layout and edit
  stepper, exception map, JSON pointer and patch walkers, QA pipeline,
  scaling and binary size charts, roadmap lanes, release timeline,
  integration decision tree and namespace builder
- Table captions (nj-table-caption) on 9 pages
- Compile times: modules and PCH charts, filesystem section, re-measured
  Figure 1, links between features/modules.md and compile_times.md
- Interactive macro chooser for features/arbitrary_types.md
- Link check: exclude URLs that answer the plugin with 400/401/419 or are
  dead (customers.md)

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: macro chooser generates adl_serializer for non-default-constructible types

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: cross-link concept pages and API pages in See also sections

Add See also links in both directions between the concept pages (features,
home, integration) and the API pages, write API links in code font, give every
entry a comment after a dash, and show the callback event figure on the parser
callbacks page.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

* docs: address review comments on the new design

- Home: add a "Latest release" button
- Sponsors: update the list and group it by tier
- Features: list all feature pages on the index page
- Releases: add highlights per release, link the 4.0 roadmap, add the first commit to the timeline
- Exceptions: prefix all example messages with the exception name
- API: no code font for format names in the See also links of the to_/from_ pages
- Merge Patch: show the document before, the patch, and the result
- Replace "--" with typographic dashes, mark external links with an icon, center Mermaid diagrams

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>

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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ basic_json_view at(IntegerType idx) const;
basic_json_view at(const json_pointer& ptr) const;
```
1. Returns the value of the object member with key `key` -- the first one, should the key occur more than once (see
1. Returns the value of the object member with key `key` — the first one, should the key occur more than once (see
[Notes on duplicate keys](operator[].md#notes)).
2. Returns the array element at index `idx`. The template accepts every integer type except `#!cpp bool` and
`#!cpp std::size_t` and forwards to the `size_type` overload, as for [`operator[]`](operator[].md); a negative
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ Strong guarantee: there are no changes to the view or the document it refers to.
- Throws [`out_of_range.401`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range401) if an array index in `ptr`
is out of range.
- Throws [`out_of_range.402`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range402) if a reference token is
`#!cpp "-"` at an array -- `at` never inserts an element, so `#!cpp "-"` is always invalid.
`#!cpp "-"` at an array — `at` never inserts an element, so `#!cpp "-"` is always invalid.
- Throws [`out_of_range.403`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range403) if a reference token names
an object member that does not exist.
- Throws [`out_of_range.404`](../../home/exceptions.md#jsonexceptionout_of_range404) if `ptr` cannot be resolved
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ None of these exceptions carry a [`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../macros/json_diagnostics
1. Linear in the number of members: as for [`ordered_json`](../ordered_json.md), members are compared one after
another, in document order, stopping at the first match. Each comparison first checks the
key's length -- already known from the index, without reading the key bytes -- before comparing its content.
key's length — already known from the index, without reading the key bytes — before comparing its content.
Objects with 128 or more members get a hash index of their keys while parsing, so that a lookup in them takes
constant time on average.
2. Linear in `idx`: elements are skipped one at a time from the first one, since they are not a fixed size in the
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ None of these exceptions carry a [`JSON_DIAGNOSTICS`](../macros/json_diagnostics
the last value.
Unlike [`operator[]`](operator[].md), which returns a [discarded](is_discarded.md) view for a missing key or an
out-of-range index, `at` always throws -- exactly as `BasicJsonType::at` does, and with the same messages, so
out-of-range index, `at` always throws — exactly as `BasicJsonType::at` does, and with the same messages, so
existing error handling written against `BasicJsonType::at` keeps working unchanged when switched to a view. This
also holds for overload 3: unlike [`operator[]`](operator[].md) with a JSON pointer, which returns a discarded view
for a missing key or an out-of-range index, `at` throws for those too (`out_of_range.403`/`out_of_range.401`).
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ for a missing key or an out-of-range index, `at` throws for those too (`out_of_r
??? example "Example: (1)/(2) access specified element with bounds checking"
The example below reads required fields out of a service configuration with `at`, and shows that the exceptions
it throws -- for a wrong type and for a missing key -- carry the same messages
it throws — for a wrong type and for a missing key — carry the same messages
[`BasicJsonType::at`](../basic_json/at.md) would produce for the same JSON text.
```cpp
@@ -135,8 +135,8 @@ for a missing key or an out-of-range index, `at` throws for those too (`out_of_r
## See also
- [operator[]](operator[].md) - access specified element (returns a discarded view instead of throwing)
- [front](front.md), [back](back.md) - access the first or last element
- [`operator[]`](operator[].md) - access specified element (returns a discarded view instead of throwing)
- [`front`](front.md), [`back`](back.md) - access the first or last element
- [`BasicJsonType::at`](../basic_json/at.md) - the corresponding function of `basic_json`
- [`json_pointer`](../json_pointer/index.md) - JSON pointer type used by overload 3