RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Documentation Project

[Laszlo Teglas]

I like the idea. Lets look at the requirements:     1) One XHTML file that displays the widget (No problem)     2) One DynAPI widget that displays the data (Little coding and debugging, No problem)     3) One massive data file (Or many smaller data files) - This implies the following:         a) we can't use a database because we need a server side scripting engine to extract the data. this can't be done because we want the docs to be available offline locally independent of a server         b) we can't really use a massive data file either think of the consequences: accessing the page online for the first time with a standard modem would require many minutes, maybe tens of minutes. Think about all the intro module docs, all the reference docs, all the example docs, and the tutorial docs, being downloaded all at once whether you want it or not. Just not an option.         c) using many smaller data files may be viable if we can figure out how to make the widget access the required files on demand. I'm not sure how this would be done. Any Ideas?         -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Strolia-Davis Christopher Contr MSG MAM Sent: November 15, 2001 4:24 PM To: 'Laszlo Teglas'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Documentation Project You could just have all the information in a data file, and create a widget in DynApi to display it.   That would kill three birds with one stone 1. help file can be updated quickly and easily without modifying much html or code 2. Data is separate from markup, and can be easily transformed at a later date 3. You can show off the DynApi   -----Original Message----- From: Laszlo Teglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 11:46 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Documentation Project Even with Layers, you will still need to update every file, every time the navsys changes. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Doug Melvin Sent: November 15, 2001 9:24 AM To: Laszlo Teglas; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Dev] Documentation Project frames? FRAMES?! Um, this a DHTML library, why not use Layers..? ----- Original Message ----- From: Laszlo Teglas To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:29 PM Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Documentation Project php / asp / cgi / jsp / cfm / perl   these all require server side engines. Thus they can not be viewed from anywhere. They can only be viewed when served up by a server. I have mentioned in my earlier comment, that "We want the document to be viewable offline locally, therefore we can't use any server side script to include the navigation system."   I believe this is one of the reasons why Sun uses frames for it's extensive documentations of the Java API: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/index.html   NanoFace =;^) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Pemberton Sent: November 14, 2001 4:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [Dynapi-Dev] Documentation Project >I vote for Frames =;^) >Using frames may also help when we want to update different formats of the >documentation. i.e. pdf files can be set up to list the content files >consecutively without the need to strip out the navsys from every page. We >could then replicate the navsys as a table of contents. (I haven't actually >tried this, I'm just thinking out loud) I don't know much about Win2PDF. >Does it take a graphical snap shot, or does it copy the text of the document >and format it into pdf? If it copies the text, does it ignore HTML tags? >What would it do to a navsys that is made up of tags mixed with content?   This is not really needed.  It is quite possible, using php / asp / cgi to include the common navigation code automatically.  This means that if written in a specific way, it is then possible to override the inclusion of such code.  This would allow for easy conversion by simply stripping the "include" calls made in the content files. Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com _______________________________________________ Dynapi-Dev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mail-archive.com/dynapi-dev@lists.sourceforge.net/