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: Izidor Jerebic <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 09:43:37 +0200
On 22.6.2011, at 23:24, Ronald Hayden wrote:
> 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.
I really appreciate whenever any Apple engineer takes time to talk to us. So thanks for the response, Ron.
That said - documentation is webpages and webpages somehow do not work on iPad? I realize you might use "work" in a very narrow sense of "being appropriate" but it is very wrong thinking indeed.
We have the best webpage viewer in the world - Safari. You are just crippling its abilities with superfluous Javascript. I can zoom and select and search and do many things on a plain webpage which are simply prevented on an Apple documentation page by this disastrous concept of an "app".
If you just stopped pretending that you are writing an app and just write webpages with HTML with a bit of CSS, it would be so much better and easier for everybody. And documentation webpages would work everywhere (psst, don't let CEO know you said webpages don't work on iPad).
I really shudder when I think of direction this is going. Remember Apple Help Viewer? The horrible disaster that should never have been inflicted upon poor users. Developers realized that and started to use plain html with webview for user documentation instead.
I hope developer documentation will stay HTML which works everywhere and is not going the way of Apple Help Viewer.
BTW, when doing research, Safari is my starting point (or better said - Google in Safari). The web is much bigger than the AppleDocApp, so it would be nice if Apple developer documentation would mesh with the web, not live in its own little crippled universe. If you have documentation as rather plain HTML/CSS. you can make your own presentation of docs in Xcode easily, but in Safari let it be webpages.
izidor
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