Re: Documentation Workflow
Re: Documentation Workflow
- Subject: Re: Documentation Workflow
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2016 17:18:04 -0600
On Nov 12, 2016, at 11:41 AM, Richard Charles wrote:
> The current documentation seems to be well formatted for display on an iPad. Does anyone have a programming work flow that uses the documentation displayed on an iPad or iOS device?
>
> I suppose if you are commuting to work riding a train or a bus and want to review the documentation on your iPad this might work well. This might also work if the documentation was sitting at your side on an iPad like a book or if you wanted to read the documentation like you would read a bound book. However I would be surprised if many programmers have a programming work flow like this. It is simply too restrictive, slow, and cumbersome when actually coding.
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> My current workflow has a local copy of OS X 10.9 documentation displayed in Safari, often using multiple tabs, on a second display. I find this documentation setup to be very helpful, searchable, inclusive, and productive.
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> Why is the documentation team going down this bizarre path? Do they really think we will be programming on iPads some day?
>
> --Richard Charles
The important thing is that we are not now.
Apparently, the fonts are STILL too visible. The text in the documentation needs to be even skinnier so there is no possible chance that we can read it. And it's really good that there are no PDF documents for us to keep as reference for anything that we searched for.
Whomever is making these decisions at Apple should be checked in to a place where they are not allowed to declare policy to anyone again, ever.
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