thron7-2 wrote: > > >> The online manual is, as I said, an extremely useful resource. All I >> am saying is that a more book-like-structuring (Introduction, >> Chapters, Sub-Sections, Index etc.) would, just visually, help easing > the > learning curve. > > I'm completely with you. Unfortunately, there are also elements that > favour more the "search-don't-sort" approach, and find tables of contents > and indexes old-fashioned and "un-cool". > >
That's interesting... I am definitely "old-fashioned" in this respect. The difference between "search" and "sort" is for me that with the "sort" someone already put some time into trying to put some sense into unstructured information. For example, with an index, someone already tried to group the really relevant information together, guiding you to the heart of the matter rather than to some useless location where a term is mentioned. The same with a table of contents. That's why people still buy books (I would by a qooxdoo book, BTW ;-) ). The "search" strategy, which I use myself a lot, means that you are doing the categorization work again and again, for each little piece of information that you're after, with less knowledge than the one who would be designing the "sort" strategy. "Search", for me, is always a fallback strategy that is much less efficient. But that might just be my impression. I am a 20th century person who remembers typewriters and black/white TV. ;-) Cheers, Christian -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/qooxdoo-IDE-Request-for-Comments-tp3782909p3814454.html Sent from the qooxdoo mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ qooxdoo-devel mailing list qooxdoo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qooxdoo-devel
