Uh ... my application is often used in areas without any network
connection. Even though the UI is not the most beautiful in the world it
is a very helpful tool and I use JavaHelp quite extensively. Of course I
am in line with Time, a chance is needed but we should have the case in
mind for off-line users. With JavaHelp I like that it is integrated to
my application and not some website - it ships with it integrated
nicely. This could of course be solve easy by simply add a Help->Update
Offline Help and it simply dumps the current online help to disk for
offline usage. Maybe even automatically avoiding a menu item, using the
same idea as the Update Server that on startup the app is checking of
the online documentation has been updated and pops up a suggestion to
the user to "Want to update offline documentation", i.e. the online help
always has a offline copy by default.
Bernd
On 9/22/2018 9:48 AM, Antonio wrote:
+1 to online help.
On 22/09/18 16:16, Tim Boudreau wrote:
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
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