Re: bad documentation
Re: bad documentation
- Subject: Re: bad documentation
- From: "Tomas Zahradnicky, Jr." <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:03:48 +0100
> -- At the very top of every page of the doc, there is a two links
"documentation":"cocoa". YOU CANNOT follow them, because they correspond
to a link 'help:something' that no browser understand. (Okay there is Help
Viewer; who is laughing?) Even PB cannot follow one these link (the most
useful: coca).
We all agree that AppleHelp and HelpViewer are worthless. Apple should
remove these bogus links ASAP and replace them with useful links.
The documentation is made like other the USER documentation (Mac OS
help, AppleScript,...). This is definitely bad. The helpviewer is a
very simple app which and they extend it by launching applescripts to
do work they cannot like opening files, filling the clipboard and so.
Apple's very stupid with docs, because they don't want to license
documentation to anyone. :( I used under classic to use think
reference --- a lighting fast reference --- but, because of the
apple's stupidity it is out of date (related to System 7). The
helpviewer is really a bad joke... so slow and stupid application is
an example how should documentation *never* be!
There are many alternative sources for this type of information. Search
with google.
Google is perfect. No spam, no ads, but requires you to be connected
to the internet. Not everyone can be connected (due to high prices
here, for example) to the internet all the time.
> > This topic is under construction.
> >
> No comment! (That's now more than one year that Mac OS X is out, remember
> ?)
>
> -- So to find useful information you MUST read the classes description.
OK. I don't anticipate this ever changing.
That's true. I just needed to manipulate some files and I this
message made me quite angry.
-Tomas
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# Tomas Zahradnicky, Jr
# The Czech Technical University
# FEL-CTU, Prague