117569 - Mozilla's helpbrowser needs an overhaul

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Morten Nilsen]

kocik and myself will be updating the mozilla help content, and hopefully also
make a new help browser, or atleast improve the excisting one

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

ccing component owner

Comment 2

[Morten Nilsen]

wrote spec, setting url to spec

Comment 3

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

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?

Comment 4

[Morten Nilsen]

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

Comment 5

[Morten Nilsen]

Attachment: screenshots

screenshots of the current implementation of my spec.

some of the code still needs work before I make a diff.

Comment 6

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

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.

Comment 7

[Morten Nilsen]

sorry, but I have lost my ability to work on this for the time beeing,
reassigning to [e-mail] and setting helpwanted keyword

If I can work on this at a later point, I will take it back then.

Comment 8

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

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>

Comment 9

[Brant Gurganus]

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.

Comment 10

[Daniel Wang]

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