Ian Oeschger wrote:
> http://www.mozilla.org/projects/help-viewer
Is it anyhow possible to make the help system independant from the Help
window?
IMO, Navigator is ideal for reading documentation. It's purpose is to
display and navigate through hypertext, and it is / will be quite
sophisticated at that (with bookmarks, LINK navigation and all).
With the sidebar, we even have a way to display the TOC and index. There
is a facility planned to allow websites to deliver a sitemap (=TOC) and
make it display in the sidebar, at least Aurora
<http://www.mozilla.org/xpapps/aurora/> promised that. We'd need to push
that effort.
We'd also invent something for the index.
Then, the docs were just a simple local "website".
All the help system magic would be to provide an easy way for apps to
invoke the help system and open certain parts of the docs.
If we don't want to require Navigator for the help system, we could
build a simple help view like you, Ian O., suggested, and make it use
the "sitemap" data.
Or am I oversimplificating?
