On Aug 27, 2004, at 6:45 PM, Dan Shafer wrote:
But I'd like to be contrary for a moment here (yeah, I know...big shock, right?) and ask why documentation was "fixed" for 2.5 when as far as I was concerned it was never broken in 2.2. In fact, it is all but unusable for the kinds of things I use the online docs for in 2.5.
Well, there was a lot of demand for an updated approach to the docs, though the content was considered excellent. A single-window design was high on the request list.
As you can see, the docs have a lot of new features built-in, and take advantage of a lot of the new features that Revolution offers... XML, etc.
It seems all this updating comes with a price-tag though... performance doesn't begin to compare, and the search functionality seems less accurate than before... which was far from the best feature to begin with. All in all, it seems that we've traded one set of inefficiencies for a different set of inefficiencies.
I'm not going to let it stop me from using 2.5, since at least the docs no longer freeze Rev, but I'm sincerely hoping that the decision is made to use the XML as only an authoring-time tool, but have the doc's data be based on stacks and cards rather than raw XML, which they currently seem to be. Using the native database qualities of Revolution should bring us back the speed and search functionality we enjoyed previously, while still wrapped in the sexy new package.
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Troy
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