Closed Bug 117569 Opened 23 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Mozilla's helpbrowser needs an overhaul

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(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

x86
Linux
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: Morten, Unassigned)

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Details

(Keywords: helpwanted)

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kocik and myself will be updating the mozilla help content, and hopefully also
make a new help browser, or atleast improve the excisting one
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
ccing component owner
wrote spec, setting url to spec
Blocks: 117567
Does this spec show a help viewer with no left pane for table of contents /
index / search? I'm not a good ascii art reader. Is that "A" an index button?

There is no sidebar, the A is supposed to be a house, i.e. home
(I blame the ASCII art on mpt ;)

once I find the time, I'll slap together something better
Attached file screenshots
screenshots of the current implementation of my spec.

some of the code still needs work before I make a diff.
Maybe we can co-overhaul the help system? I'd hate to start all over on this.
Plus Peter Wilson is working on a very cool update that lets you specify which
panels and content appear in RDF/XML. Using his framework, you could get
something like what you have shownn. But you could also do the separate search
panel, index panel, etc. 

More soon. cc'ing Peter.
sorry, but I have lost my ability to work on this for the time beeing,
reassigning to nobody@mozilla.org and setting helpwanted keyword

If I can work on this at a later point, I will take it back then.
Assignee: Morten → nobody
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Keywords: helpwanted
Regarding the coach proposal in the spec: It could probably automatically 
proceed when the current action is performed by attaching eventobservers to the 
appropriate element. For example attaching a "click" observer to the
Edit->Preferences <menuitem>
Blocks: 67376
No longer blocks: 117567
Resolving as WONTFIX since the person working on this is no longer working on it
and the sample interface's web site is no longer available.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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