[ omegat-Feature Requests-2018176 ] Implement a new documentation browser

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Feature Requests item #2018176, was opened at 2008-07-14 20:30
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Private: No
Submitted By: smolejv (vitosmolej)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Implement a new documentation browser

Initial Comment:
The importance of doing our own HTML browsing through the documentation, evades me. 

it supports just one font
it does not understand CSS
it can not handle outside URLs
it burns up the real estate

(add points to your heart's content,
there's more I am sure)

What speaks against using F1 to call Firefox - Safari, whatever - instead? Once some real project is on the way, there's not much our "very own" F1 handler can do without interfering with the main stream. 

And I guess we could figure a better splash screen, if this is the one function one needs to salvage. 

regards

Vito, U'heim July 14th 2008




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>Comment By: Didier Briel (didierbr)
Date: 2008-07-15 09:23

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Since we would still have at least a platform whose browser: supports just
one font, does not understand CSS, etc., I don't see what we would have
gained.

Didier

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Comment By: smolejv (vitosmolej)
Date: 2008-07-15 06:29

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>>While calling a "default" browser under Windows and Mac should not be
an
issue, there is no such thing under Linux (not to mention FreeBSD and
Solaris).<<

I understand. What about something like this

case OS
{
 MAC:        call safari
 Windows:    call firefox 
 else: // d*mn
   leave it as is
}

Of course an OS special here, a hardware special there, and the
application is getting bastardized ...

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Comment By: Didier Briel (didierbr)
Date: 2008-07-14 22:27

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While calling a "default" browser under Windows and Mac should not be an
issue, there is no such thing under Linux (not to mention FreeBSD and
Solaris).

That's the point the internal HTML browser has: it works on all
platforms.

Didier

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