I can’t remember when I gave up on Xcode docs now, (Xcode 6, I guess), and I also noticed that
i. the PDF download symbol went AWOL sometime ago on the developer site docs, and ii. the Javascript on those pages is often messed up so that I can’t scroll the doc in Safari (it keeps returning to the top). Answer for me was to get Dash[1]. Great tool, but pretty lame that it’s needed in the first place. Best P @sqwarqdev http://sqwarq.com [1] (no affiliation, just happy customer) https://kapeli.com/dash On Mar 12, 2016, at 07:43 AM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: On Mar 11, 2016, at 1:02 PM, Carl Hoefs wrote: How "useful" is a library of PDF docs? They're outdated the moment they're produced. Useful enough to know where they are on my hard drive, which is easier and more useful than wading through Apple's online mess. (On the other hand, I wish I could get Xcode's documentation system to work *at all* when I'm not connected to the internet. It never has.) -Carl That's my point. If I can't get to the net for some reason, I want to know I have the docs on my local box and docs I can EASILY SEARCH. Hell, the frameworks docs I ended up using were not even for iOS and were articles written 4 years ago by someone who isn't employed at Apple (and help here), because I couldn't find useful guides on Apple's developer site. I was searching for frameworks docs on the dev site and the dev videos part and it's horrible. 1. You get loads more content than fits your search query. 2. Scrolling returns data concurrently, so the found set you see isn't the entire found set. There's no scroll thumb to indicate the range you have scrolled to within the found set or how far you have left to go. You end up wasting time because of too many results that don't apply to your criteria and then you can't see how far you are through the found set, so, after enough wasted time, it's just a case of, "I give up and will search somewhere more useful than here". Apple's UI engineers seem to forget that the user interfaces are meant to convey context and valuable data to the users to help them accomplish their desired tasks. UI Usability has taken a serious nose dive over the past few years. It's disappointing. On Mar 10, 2016, at 11:58 PM, Daniel Phillips <djp_phill...@me.com> wrote: They're moving to a more online or iBooks approach. They've taken down lots of PDFs including the iOS human interface guidelines. I did bug report it but they closed it and said PDF is an unsupported format for that document. rdar://21704084 It's a big shame. On 10 Mar 2016, at 11:15 pm, Peter Teeson <ptee...@icloud.com> wrote: On Mar 10, 2016, at 2:09 PM, Alex Zavatone <z...@mac.com> wrote: Did Apple start removing all the PDF files for its documentation for developers? It's rather maddening not being able to have a library of useful docs and having to resort to searching the dev site all the time for things. +1 Please tell me that Apple is not removing all of its PDF files for developer documentation. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list (Xcode-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/djp_phillips%40me.com This email sent to djp_phill...@me.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list (Xcode-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/newslists%40autonomy.caltech.edu This email sent to newsli...@autonomy.caltech.edu _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Xcode-users mailing list (Xcode-users@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/xcode-users/zav%40mac.com This email sent to z...@mac.com
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