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Re: Doc links broken


  • Subject: Re: Doc links broken
  • From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 21:26:44 -0400

On Sep 17, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Jens Alfke wrote:

>
>> On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:00 PM, Alex Zavatone <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> What is insanely stupid is that in Xcode 5, the docs are already downloaded into the app, but Xcode 5 has to check the internet for the docs by using the link.  This breaks the docs.  So, searching any of the docs fails from within the app that you already have downloaded the docs into.
>>
>> Someone needs to dig up and reanimate Jobs.  Badly.
>
>
> Are you implying the doc viewer in Xcode worked so much better before 2011?
> Because Jobs personally implemented (or code-reviewed) it?
> Or because Jobs' frequent unannounced visits to the dev tools team were so motivational and/or terrifying? O_o
>
> Also, before you call for Jobs' resurrection, keep in mind that he was instrumental in mandating the sorts of UI animations and chrome that you keep railing against.
>
> —Jens

But seriously.  WTF?  Breaking the docs like this is seriously sloppy work.  Are they just pushing stuff out the door without testing?  I've been shipping software for 20+ years and until recently, I've looked at Apple as one of the places that sets the standard of how to do things correctly, not shipping an update to their major IDE and breaking the online and built in documentation for everyone who didn't upgrade.

How about "we're so secure now that you can't even read our docs"?  I think that beats "it just works" be a mile don't you?

Good thing no one on this planet who uses Xcode 5 to make stuff for Apple was on a deadline today where they might have needed to use the documentation.

Unreal.
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 >Doc links broken (From: Rick Mann <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Doc links broken (From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>)
 >Re: Doc links broken (From: Jens Alfke <email@hidden>)

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