Terry Lambert writes: > JJ Behrens wrote: > > The online documentation for PHP allows users to post comments at the end o > f > > every page of the online documentation. Often times, these comments serve > to > > enlighten others about various quirks of the libraries. Perhaps doing the > same > > thing with the FreeBSD handbook pages (only online) might be a good idea. > > The problem with this (and the similar "FAQ-o-matic") approach > is that they are very deep. > > In other words, you have to go through a large set of branch > points to get to the information. > > Aside from the classification problem (everyone has to classify > the same way for them to be able to get the information out), > the human factors argue that the depth should not exceed 3 on > any set of choices, before you get to what you want (HCI studies > at Bell Labs confirms this number).
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