Re: [Scrollkeeper-devel] system similar to ScrollKeeper

[David M. <dme...@lu...>]

On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 10:32:49AM -0600, Dan Mueth wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Ali Abdin wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bob Stayton wrote:
> 
> > > I do think the ScrollKeeper project should develop one
> > > or more basic presentation applications, to the degree that it
> > > can.  This will make it useful "out of the box" and
> > > encourage content providers to add OMF data to their packages.
> > > It will also test the data and the API, and lead to 
> > > incremental refinement of both.
> > 
> > I disagree. This is not ScrollKeeper's responsibility. Hopefully, the KDE 
> > or GNOME team can provide an "example" program to show off ScrollKeeper.
> > 
> > In fact, I believe Sun is working on a 'Help SideBar' for Nautilus on 
> > this (umm, they just sent me a 500kb patch for the Help SideBar (which I 
> > will examine when I get home)).
> 
> ScrollKeeper's scope is not generally to provide applications like this,
> but I also originally thought that a very basic application or two
> illustrating how one uses the ScrollKeeper API and what ScrollKeeper can
> do would be useful.  It looks like the GNOME/Nautilus folks will (or
> already have) already have a help browser using scrollkeeper, so people
> will soon be able to look at that to see how it works.
> 
> It would still be nice to have these example programs, or even have a
> complete help browser which does not depend on all the GNOME and KDE
> libraries.  I don't personally place this high on my priorities list
> though.  If anybody else wants to write a desktop independent browser
> which uses ScrollKeeper then this would certainly be a Good Thing.

It would be nice to put together a web front end as the
"example" program. Certainly, somebody should provide a sk interface on
the web, and it might as well be sk.

Doing a real production front-end is a dogfood issue, although there seems
to be lots of crossover here with the other doc projects, so maybe that
isn't so important.

Regards,


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