Re: reading the same documentation on iPad as on Mac?
Re: reading the same documentation on iPad as on Mac?
- Subject: Re: reading the same documentation on iPad as on Mac?
- From: Ronald Hayden <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:24:10 -0700
> Have the versions in iBooks been updated recently?
We'll be updating those (and the formatting used for our iBooks) semi-regularly. We did the first batch to get a sense of whether there would be demand for them, and we will be expanding the selection over time. It's not practical for us to update them nearly as often as we update docs on the website, so we choose the books to be published there accordingly.
> If they were better on iPad, I'd almost never use the desktop to view them.
The first release of our iPad doc viewing experience was both a requirement and an experiment. A requirement because our existing web site simply wasn't going to work for a touch-based interface, and an experiment in that it was the first time we were providing a complete web app to serve a developer library. We used preliminary technology and learned a lot. We're working on redoing this all from scratch, using a completely different and much more mature technology base.
Hopefully the new approach will remove the current issues. It'll also no doubt introduce some new ones, but we'll be in a much better position to fix problems that come up.
-- Ron
On Jun 22, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Geoff Beier wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 17:08, Ronald Hayden <email@hidden> wrote:
>> the overwhelming majority of people view the docs in Xcode directly or using a desktop browser, so that is where we'll continue to focus the majority of our efforts. We have a great fondness for the iPad as a doc viewing experience, though, so we'll continue to improve that where we can.
>>
>
> This is certainly my fault for not having seen fit to open a radar so
> far, but I'm an accidental part of that overwhelming majority. I only
> view them in Xcode or using my desktop browser because they're so
> miserable on the iPad. If they were better on iPad, I'd almost never
> use the desktop to view them.
>
> Have the versions in iBooks been updated recently? Last I checked they
> weren't current.
>
> Regards,
>
> Geoff
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