[lazarus] hello lazarus team

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Tue Dec 18 07:55:29 EST 2001


> > > Isn't there a html component for the GTK? I think html is the
> > > best format for online docs in our days, no?
> > 
> > For docs, not for help. Help needs to be faster.
> > 
> > And if we have to make our own (faster) HTML renderer, the
> > advantage of HTML disappears. 
> 
> Actually, HTML is slow only when you have to start a 
> multimegasized browser that is capable of rendering all the bells 
> and whistles of modern web pages. If you keep the complexity of 
> HTML in help-files to the minimum, it's an easy task to write a 
> simple and fast renderer for that. This would also bring the 
> advantage of having the same documentation online.

It would be pretty much the same as rendering the docs from HTML to RTF, and
then compile them to HLP I think.

But one only needed a GTK simplified RTF widget for *nix, while windows can
use it natively.






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