[Lazarus] documentation snapshot

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 2013-04-20 19:58, Anthony Walter wrote:
>> The benefit of online docs ...
>>
>> Anyone can access them without installing a thing (assuming people have a
>> web browser, which everyone does).
> 
> Unless your internet goes down... like what happened to me on Thursday.
> And I live in a first world country (finally) - but not even such
> countries are immune to internet outages.

First world? I thought you were in England? **

Leaving aside the performance issues, I think that the one area in which 
online docs are pretty much indispensable is that in principle they 
allow user annotation. However I think a big question is the extent to 
useful contributions could be folded back into the original XML (or 
whatever) without an inordinate load on the maintainers.

Apart from that, I do wish that you'd stop going on about .inf and its 
superiority: Lazarus doesn't use it so this isn't the place to discuss 
it. And I also wish you'd stop mentioning OS/2, at least when people 
might be eating :-)

** BT's backbone, which most ISPs use for ADSL, is susceptible to 
overnight outages. Be, which some use as an alternative, is more 
susceptible to outages of a minute or so at random times. Yer pays yer 
money and makes yer choice.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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