On Tue, November 8, 2016 3:13 am, Graeme Geldenhuys via Lazarus wrote: > My point is, for a help system you really don't need the latest and > greatest HTML5 features. It's simply not needed. What you do want in well > formatted text, images and some basic rich text styles. Good help is more > about the contents and the speed of getting to that contents, that about > the presentation. But some people are more obsessed about presentation > with rubbish or near zero content. >
Agreed, but when you need documentation to look as professional as a PDF file, HTML 5 could be useful. I find the documentation, for example, for Total Commander, to just be a little bit too Windows 3.1 looking. It's may be good documentation filled with lots of good text, but it feels like something from Windows 95 or windows 3.1. For professional software apps a windows 3.1 look may be just a bit too off putting. In the case of total commander, the folks who use total commander are they types of nerds that don't care. But for modern professional capitalism sold apps, I think help documents have to look more modern. As much as I hate modern, just for the sake of being modern. Like some kind of fashion show. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org http://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus