Re: Help on adding help
Re: Help on adding help
- Subject: Re: Help on adding help
- From: Jonathan Hendry <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 07:59:42 -0500
On Thursday, August 23, 2001, at 05:40 , Jessica Kahn wrote:
Although I'm not one of the folks responsible for HI decisions for the
Help system, I do know that a conscious decision was made in X to drive
the user to ask questions of the Help Viewer, rather than to have big
tables of contents or indices. These sorts of things can always change,
though, based on user feedback and other factors.
Jessica,
I think this is another aspect of the differences between the use of
HelpViewer
for getting help about iTunes or Mail, and its use in reading technical
documentation.
The requirements for each are very different.
- Jon
PS: Sorry if I bash on HelpViewer. It's not so good (yet). You rock,
though. ;)