[semi-OT] Apple's Help Viewer: a note to the frustrated
[semi-OT] Apple's Help Viewer: a note to the frustrated
- Subject: [semi-OT] Apple's Help Viewer: a note to the frustrated
- From: Gwynne <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 05:27:15 -0400
My apologies for the cross-post.
For those of us who have been using Apple's Help Viewer for help
systems in our applications, I think it should be noted that the
documentation is _severely_ outdated with regards to the Panther
version. The documentation states that Help Viewer supports only HTML
3.2, and no forms, stylesheets, or JavaScript. As of Panther (I can't
verify on any earlier system), Help Viewer seems to use exactly the
same engine for rendering as Safari 1.2, which means that it supports
full HTML 4, XHTML 1.0/1.1, CSS1/2, JavaScript, and all the other
goodies. It is my opinion that anyone who requires Panther should take
advantage of this capability in Help Viewer; help books written with
XHTML 1.0 and CSS2 (and even JavaScript) will be significantly more
flexible in terms of user experience than those stuck in HTML 3.2-land.
I intend to file a bug requesting an update of this documentation;
anyone else annoyed by the severe lack of clarity on this might want to
do the same :).
-- Gwynne, key to the Code that runs us all
Formerly known as Sailor Quasar.
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