On Wednesday 16 October 2002 02:23 am, Miguel de Icaza wrote: > hello! > > > I'm curious, why are you going for a GtkHtml implementation? I would > > have thought that a simple DHTML/CSS implementation would be much > > simpler, more portable and have the added benefit that the docs > > go-mono.com web page would be identical to those in the distribution. It > > seems a little over the top to be implementing a documentation browser > > when all you're doing is displaying web pages. Of course, search may be > > a little tricky ;-) > > Oh, do not get me wrong. > > GtkHTML is just a lightweight HTML rendering engine that does not > support CSS, so we need it to look decent for those of us that will be > using the documentation in our day-to-day work on Linux.
Ouch. CSS is really necessary for good looking docs otherwise you get into complex html that will not be consistent across browsers. > The Web-based interfaces lack the agility that you get from a native GUI > tool to browse your documentation. I think a html documentation is less cumbersome than a doc viewer and if you browse from the local drive it is just as fast. IMHO, documentation in html format that can be used with a regular browser should be the first priority. > I have no problems if we take later the scripts and generate a full > documentation set that is web-browsable (in fact, it might just be part > of the process), but we need a command-line and GUI tools that we can > use natively on Linux when disconnected from the Web (and that has > better interactions than a web page). > > Miguel _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
