One issue may be validation: The JavaHelp DTDs are no more located at
the given system URLs, resulting in errors if You don't use an
EntityResolver.
Online help has is disadvantages, too:
1. While NB help could be provided on the internet, third-party plugins
would not fit into it easily.
2. If the online help is running locally, You'll have another port to
use just for the help - I'm already running into problems on my dev
machine, especially because I need to run NB 9.0 ion parallel to 8.2
(and even 8.1 for the XML tools).
I'd prefer not to use an online help, if possible. However, the JavaHelp
infrastructure isn't really good - one issue being the necessity of the
same view declarations for every merged helpset, while You have only one
viewer. Another problem is, that there's nearly no indexer logging,
though indexing seems very likely to break.
So, IMHO one should think about a new infrastructure, either with
integration of third-party help files into an online help, or with
better helpset definitions.
E.g., You need only one definition of views, which can be provided by a
new help module. And there's no technical difference between TOC and
Index - both views are basically the same. So just refer one of both
views in the file specifying the structure.
Usually, You also don't need much of the header, if You don't want to
support JavaScript. OTOH, You could use the <title> tags instead of text
attributes in the item declarations.
Just some ideas.
Kind regards
Peter
Am 22.09.18 um 16:16 schrieb Tim Boudreau:
I've been thinking for at least a decade and a half that javahelp needs to
die. It's basically a clone of the Windows 3.1 help system. Evidence was,
last I knew, that it was rarely used by real users.
Online help would, IMHO, be fine in this era.
-Tim
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 6:15 AM Peter Nabbefeld <peter.nabbef...@gmx.de>
wrote:
Hello,
as JavaHelp is currently GPL and its UI is outdated:
What will happen to user documentation?
While JavaHelp might be licensed under AL2, it still suffers from UI
support.
What about some JavaHelp 3.0 (which probably needs a new name), building
on Lucene but with a replaceable GUI (probably based on Servo renderer)?
Just an idea ...
Kind regards
Peter
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