Re: Help on adding help
Re: Help on adding help
- Subject: Re: Help on adding help
- From: Jessica Kahn <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 13:24:34 -0700
I'm pretty certain that all of our documentation is protected by
copyright, so I'd advise against this, at least until you receive
specific permission from somebody at Apple.
On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 12:39 PM, Stuppel, Searle @ San Diego
Central wrote:
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Does Apple have a problem if people take their docs and repost them to
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websites (obviously with no changes made) ??
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Searle Stuppel
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-----Original Message-----
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From: email@hidden
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[mailto:email@hidden]On Behalf Of Jessica Kahn
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Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:04 AM
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To: Jonathan Hendry
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Cc: email@hidden
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Subject: Re: Help on adding help
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Hi Jon,
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On Friday, August 24, 2001, at 05:59 AM, Jonathan Hendry wrote:
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> On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 05:40 , Jessica Kahn wrote:
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>> Although I'm not one of the folks responsible for HI decisions for
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the
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>> Help system, I do know that a conscious decision was made in X to
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>> drive the user to ask questions of the Help Viewer, rather than to
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>> have big tables of contents or indices. These sorts of things can
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>> always change, though, based on user feedback and other factors.
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> Jessica,
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> I think this is another aspect of the differences between the use of
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> HelpViewer
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> for getting help about iTunes or Mail, and its use in reading
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technical
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> documentation.
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> The requirements for each are very different.
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Yep, and that's why we're coming up with ways to make the help system
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much more flexible, so that it can better suit different target
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audiences' needs.
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> PS: Sorry if I bash on HelpViewer. It's not so good (yet). You rock,
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Provided it doesn't get personal or profane, I've got pretty thick skin
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(else I wouldn't be able to continue reading and responding to this
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list). Thanks for the compliment! Made my morning!
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--Jess
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