On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Kevin Godby <god...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 5:34 PM, Ilya Haykinson <haykin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I would add to this "Create a way to read the manual online", i.e. embed > > some flash-based PDF display, to let people without a PDF reader look > > through our manual. > > You could embed Google's PDF viewer on our website: > > https://docs.google.com/viewer > > I think it'll be a lot more interesting when we have an HTML version > of the manual online, though. (I've got some ideas there.) > > *Just not the Flash for God's sake! *Google's Viewer can do the basic rendering (text and images), but links (chapter, index, glossary, ...) doesn't work. I agree with Kevin - HTML edition (we nevertheless consider from beginning) would be the best for online reading. > > We should also try to find a way to have key phrases from the manual > indexed > > by search engines -- otherwise people won't find the manual when trying > to > > answer their questions. > > I think Google, at least, does a fairly decent job of indexing PDFs. > I'm not sure if it's aware of the PDFs on our site yet or not. > > Adnane: Something we might want to look into is creating a > sitemap.xml, too. > ( > http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=156184&hl=en > ) > > --Kevin > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-manual> > Post to : ubuntu-manual@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-manual<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntu-manual> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > --- Regards Martin Lukeš P.S.: Please keep the communication history
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