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On 2 Dec, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Matthew East wrote:
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For dapper, the About Ubuntu panel entry looks like it is going to be
opening a program [1] written especially for the purpose (like the
About Gnome dialogue), rather than yelp. So it looks like the problem
encountered in Breezy will not arise.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AboutUbuntu
For this reason, the possibility of shipping the docs in html is now
again a valid one,
Cool, I didn't realize AboutUbuntu was going to have such a positive
side-effect. :-)
and I thought I would therefore reopen debate on the subject.
...
My personal opinion is in favour of html. Here are what I see the
advantages and disadvantages of html:
Advantages:
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* Greater loading speed (this is the killer for me) - Yelp renders in
html, and therefore converts xml to html using its own stylesheets
when you load a document. The time it takes to load pages from xml in
yelp is probably enough to put the user off the help entirely!
...
Agreed -- in Breezy, the delay between clicking the Help launcher and
seeing actual help text on the screen is horrific. I'll prefer HTML too
for this reason alone.
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Disadvantages:
* There is no side panel in the html. I don't think this is a
particularly serious disadv. because the html we build has quite good
navigation included.
Another positive side-effect! (That sidebar makes the help viewer too
large.)
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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