Re: "help" URLs
Re: "help" URLs
- Subject: Re: "help" URLs
- From: Aaron Tuller <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 18:25:16 -0700
and the biggest one:
the back and forward arrows are at the bottom of the window?! who
thought that one up.
search is at top, so I search for something, then decide to look at a
link, but then wanna go back, I have to down to the bottom of the
window and then back up again.
I hate Help Viewer, and I hate that the URL's on Apple's site have
help: style links. What if I want to look at Apple docs on some
other kind of machine. and it's not like it's anything useful, it's
just that deeper I go, if I wanna go back up to say the root cocoa
docs I get this:
help:openbook=Cocoa
very helpful. what if my whole point of being at the website is to
see the versions on the site, not my local copies. what if I don't
have the developer tools installed on the machine I'm on. try it, go
to IE, and type that link, it launches Help Viewer and it's blank!
sorry for ranting, I've just wasted too much time with the help. and
don't get me started on searching. You search for NSArray and it
only gives you the Java one on he first screen, the ObjC page isn't
until screen later. You can't bookmark or annotate the docs, you
can't select the stupid text!! come on people.
-aaron
At 1:05 AM +0200 8/4/01, Andreas Monitzer wrote:
On Friday, August 3, 2001, at 10:38 , Mark T wrote:
Unfortunately, Help Viewer has its own problems like
noncustomizable text sizes and colors and lack of scroll wheel
support.
Don't forget:
* no text selection (someone already mentioned this)
* slow rendering (someone at Apple's already working on this issue)
* single window
* single threaded
* it's Carbon, that means while it's rendering (which can take
minutes on my dev machine with large HTML files) the window behaves
like a wall of bricks.