I have to admit the packaging idea for many applications is much cooler than just plain old Visual Studio help. I just thought about the MS help viewer because we use a lot of Microsoft products and, so, there are some good possibilities to do easy integration between our TFS and Share Point. I guess I am a little bit personally motivated.
Two other reasons why I found Help 3 a good idea is because there is a trend here to use MAML (XML documentation comments) to write real documentation (not just create reference documentation), which I would like to break, and because the package doesn't look too hard to output. So maybe this could be one of the packages in the list even if it is a little bit on the boring side... As for the other formats, wrap them up, I'll take them! Greetings, Scott -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Cramer, David W (David) [mailto:[email protected]] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Februar 2011 00:26 An: Rowland, Larry; Jirka Kosek; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Betreff: RE: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011 Indeed, that's on the list for WebHelp: "Add an option to use Lucene for server-side searches with table of contents state persisted on the server." http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/WebHelpGsoc2011 It would be good for situations where running Eclipse as a war is too heavy and presumably simpler to get working in a variety of app servers than an eclipse.war is. David -----Original Message----- From: Rowland, Larry [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 5:12 PM To: Jirka Kosek; [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011 I think that's a great idea. It would also be helpful to extend it to work as a component in a TomCat environment where Lucene could replace the search engine (for larger help environments). Larry Rowland -----Original Message----- From: Jirka Kosek [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 8:46 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011 Denis Bradford wrote: > That said, Help 3 seems likely to eventually take hold. And since the > outputs will be mostly straight XHTML, maybe it's not too risky to get > started on the DocBook stylesheets. Or we can decide not to wait for MS and build just packaging to Web Widgets, or Air, or iPad, or Android application, or... of WebHelp output. Almost any platform now supports applications written purely in HTML, CSS and Javascript and packaged for easy installation. This is something worth to explore. And it is more "sexy" then boring VisualStudio help ;-) Jirka -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jirka Kosek e-mail: [email protected] http://xmlguru.cz ------------------------------------------------------------------ Professional XML consulting and training services DocBook customization, custom XSLT/XSL-FO document processing ------------------------------------------------------------------ OASIS DocBook TC member, W3C Invited Expert, ISO JTC1/SC34 member ------------------------------------------------------------------
