Public discussion -> moved to the list.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2001 at 01:21:28PM +0100, Yann Lohier wrote :
> > Did you actually looked at the content? There has also
> > changed a lot. And it has already been discussed in the past
> > the the design is not optimal.
>
> No, but i thought we only were talking about design.
Wrong assumption.
> > However, what Gabor did was a great work. Even if many don't
> > like the new design (he even self says it could be better) he
> > provided a great infrastructure for the new manual.
>
> Rethinking the design from the beginning is vital. If you want to keep the
> Gabor's one, please implement skins !
No one said that. I repeat myself, even Gabor himself said
its not perfect and he seeks forward for some designers. This
was a few weeks ago and a few people already contacted him
but it will take time (Gabor, I hope I'm right here ;)
> The use of layers increases dev. time compared to pure HTML, and you'll
> always have things that won't work as they should, because even if your
> target is only IE, there are always bugs or changes from one version to
> another that introduce problems.
> You won't notice them immediately but there'll be. Always.
> Just have a look at http://webreference.com/dhtml/column26/width.html and
> see how Microsoft don't care about changing the way IE interprets
> HTML/DHTML. There are other pages in that article, look at the links at
> bottom. It shows differences between IE4 and IE5, but there are also
> differences between 5 and 5.5, between 5.5 and 6... The best thing is to use
> basic features, so you won't get serious problem.
> I know, i may seem to be paranoiac, but... Anyway, what improvements DHTML
> could bring to PHP's doc ?
I don't get your problem. In this term, DHTML is only used on
one platform for one 'browser software' which is HTML Help
which in turn uses the IE rendering Engine. You can write JS
code which runs on any of the browser you mentioned. As long
as it helps users to navigate it should be done that way.
Webreferences & Co are nice, but actually they don't apply.
They deal with DHTML in server/browser environment. We do not
have this particular environment here.
I suggest, next time proper read think before writing such a
mail.
- Markus
