Jaime E . Villate wrote:
On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Laurent Julliard wrote:
The reason why I reactivated the help funtion is because of the new Bug
Tracking System that I have introduced where most pages come with an
online help. Clicking on a question mark (?) in those pages pops up a
new medium-sized window which contains a contextual help. If I remember
well it also forces the window to the top so that it is always visible.
I am by no mean an HTML export and there might be other ways to open
this contextual help window. If so I am open to suggestions.
However I'd like that we think twice before removing this little piece
of JScript because my plan is to put much more contextual help on-line
in the coming weeks.
Thanks for the explanation. For the time being I will not touch it then; but
when I have some time I will create a Layout-js.class to be used by pages that
need the help function, so we do not have to include it in every single
page. I will also show you some time how to get a similar effect, without
using Javascript, and in a way that will also work in lynx, links and w3; even
better, I would group all of your help hints into a single file, and make the
question marks open a new window and place the cursor somewhere within that
single help page, which could also be viewed as a single document.
Cheers,
Jaime
Jaime,
We definitely need to talk more about that. One of the thing I want to
do both at Xerox and for Savannah is to transform the 100 page User
Guide (currently in MS-Word, aarghh!!) that we wrote into an online
version and be able to point at specific section depending where we are
on the Web site.
So yes anything you can show me to improve my skills in this domain is
highly appreciated.
Laurent
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