On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 01:29:31PM +0200, Laurent Julliard wrote:
The reason why I reactivated the help funtion is because of the new Bug
Tracking System that I have introduced where most pages come with an
online help. Clicking on a question mark (?) in those pages pops up a
new medium-sized window which contains a contextual help. If I remember
well it also forces the window to the top so that it is always visible.
I am by no mean an HTML export and there might be other ways to open
this contextual help window. If so I am open to suggestions.
However I'd like that we think twice before removing this little piece
of JScript because my plan is to put much more contextual help on-line
in the coming weeks.
Thanks for the explanation. For the time being I will not touch it then; but
when I have some time I will create a Layout-js.class to be used by pages that
need the help function, so we do not have to include it in every single
page. I will also show you some time how to get a similar effect, without
using Javascript, and in a way that will also work in lynx, links and w3; even
better, I would group all of your help hints into a single file, and make the
question marks open a new window and place the cursor somewhere within that
single help page, which could also be viewed as a single document.
Cheers,
Jaime