> I didn't like the new format, because: > - it is heavy. The pages take longer to open than they used to; > - cute graphics are cute, but useless. I don't need them to learn or > find the information I want; > - that purple background is horrible. It gives the whole viewing > area a darker aspect; it's hard on the eyes after a while; > - once again, you made a .chm file that is a real pain to view in > low resolution. This damn thing got me shoving the screen from side > to side all the time. I hope that, after your deaths, you and all Web > designers that insist on that kind of high-resolution-nazi attitude > go to a special room in Hell where you'll spend years being forced to > see everything you're ever allowed to see in very high resolution, > but wearing low res goggles nailed to your skulls that will never let > you see the whole area of whatever you're looking at, and one scroll > control button hanging from each of your buttock cheeks so that you > can move the goggle view and remember this thoughtful message every > time you try to sit down.
As you may have read, we made a survey among our users. One question asked about their resultion, or more exactly the window size in which they use the manual. It turned out, that half of you would like to see a manual nicely viewable in a small window. The same results turned out for graphics intensive / pure text. This was quite predictable, anyway :) This is why we decided to make two versions, where anybody will be able to switch between a "graphics heavy" and a lo version anytime on their preferences page offline. > A useful idea: since you make the manual available in so many > different formats, here is another one you can offer: non-compiled > help package. A package containing all necessary files to build the > .CHM file with Microsoft Help Workshop, so that we can make our own > CSS and compile it. Bet no one suggested that yet. No, this was suggested before. It is in one of the comments posted along the results of our survey, and we received many personal emails asking for that. We decided to build a feature, so that a css code outside the CHM will also be usable for personal design preferences... This will allow anybody to make his own design for the manual. We do not plan to distribute an uncompiled version, though. Anybody can uncompile a CHM if he likes, with MS HTML Help WorkShop. Please consider, that this is a work in progress... Goba
