[lazarus] hello lazarus team

Florian Klaempfl Florian.Klaempfl at gmx.de
Tue Dec 18 07:59:15 EST 2001


At 14:00 18.12.01 +0100, you wrote:
> > > > 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.

But the FPC docs don't use the .HLP format either. And the VC help system
is nothing else than packed HTML.






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