254991 - Need a way to make ToC entries platform-specific

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 254992

(SeaMonkey :: Help Viewer, defect)

Description

[Jeff Walden [:Waldo]]

I'm working on bringing the menu reference up to snuff.  For items like
Tools>Options (Edit>Preferences on Linux, and therein lies the rub), it appears
that it's impossible to make only one show up in the table of contents unless
the file is preprocessed, which isn't doable because it'd be a localization
hurdle.  This would also apply to Windows-only entries, like the email items
under Tools in Windows, Default Browser on the Mac, etc.

I don't know how this is doable, but if it's possible to add a custom attribute
to some entries in the ToC to mark them in the same way that CSS can be used to
mark elements in the docs themselves as win/noWin/mac/noMac/unix/noUnix, that
would work.  Unfortunately, it's impossible for 1.0 (I'm not sure exactly what
I'll do for now, because CSS hiding would be confusing if the entry doesn't
exist).  I do, however, think it's an extremely important feature for After
Firefox 1.0 to ensure platform conformity.  (It should have been done before
1.0, but of course we're 20/20 now.)

I won't take this because I don't know enough yet, but I may give it a stab as I
learn more about how Help works (which has zero chance of happening to the
degree needed anytime before 1.0).

Comment 1

[Jeff Walden (gone starting June 8)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 254992 ***