I've written a couple of Struts web apps where the only online help was a help icon next to some strategically chosen fields which when hovered over, produced some rollover help text. One problem I found with this approach was that if I wanted to provide help on a bunch of controls, the page got cluttered with help icons. Another problem is that the help text is now scattered throughout all my jsp pages, so any future attempt to create a User's Guide of some kind using the help text, would be difficult.
I'm writing another Struts web app where I'd like a full-blown online help system. By full-blown, I was thinking of a complete User's Guide that could be viewed in full in a popup page (easy enough) but also an iframe within the user's browser, probably in a right side bar, that would show a context-sensitive section of the User's Guide, based on where the user is in the app. This iframe could be toggled on or off with a Help icon somewhere on each page. I guess I'm wondering if there are some best practices for this sort of thing in Struts, or if there is a plugin, library, etc., for developing online help. Thanks, Brian Barnett --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
