> On 12 Nov 2016, at 18:41, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> 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. > > 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. > > Why is the documentation team going down this bizarre path? Do they really > think we will be programming on iPads some day?
Indeed, the main problem with the documentation on iPad, is that it’s harder to copy-and-paste from it to Xcode source windows. But I hear that in macOS Sierra and iOS 10, it’s possible to copy-and-paste from an iPad to the Mac? -- __Pascal J. Bourguignon__ _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
