Re: Help API for GNOME 2.0

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Fleck wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:41:52PM +0100, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > Calum Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > On the other hand, we could potentially have a GtkHTML2-based accessible
> > > browser in time for GNOME 2.0, at least if Anders' enthusiasm for making
> > > GtkHTML2 accessible is maintained :o) So if there's no HTML-format help
> > > available in 2.0, it could potentially mean we're depriving the product
> > > of any accessible online documentation.
> > 
> > This is also my assessment/worry.  I believe that we need to keep an
> > HTML-only option alive for this reason if no other reason.
> > 
> 
> Could you clarify?
> 
> Will this require static html files? Or would a help rendering system
> that generates html on the fly and passes it to the browser meet this
> need?
> 

I'm probably being stupid, but from the point of view of the *browser*,
there shouldn't be any differnece as I see it. People may want to have
static html for other reasons than accessability, though...

> Cheers,
> -- 
> John Fleck
> jfleck inkstain net (h), http://www.inkstain.net/fleck/
> 

	Sander

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