[Lazarus] maybe to be merged into 0.9.26 (regression in synedit / bug 12281)

[Martin Friebe]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael Van Canneyt
<michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> Ehm.
> The FPC help alone is about 32000 HTML pages. How will your browser
> react if you cram all that in 1 page and load it in the browser ?
>
> I can't even imagine what would happen if you add the LCL help...
>
> Such small tools are OK for small (as in tiny, tiddly) projects, but not
> for serious projects.

Ehm..  ;-)
As the title of the message said:  "IDE help"

I was not referring to FCL, RTL or LCL help. Those are already in
fpdoc format. And users can already download "offline" versions of
them.  The IDE itself _doesn't_ have a offline version. So users
without internet connection have _no_ IDE help, because it's in a
online wiki format only. And I'm pretty sure the IDE Help is a lot
smaller than FCL, RTL or LCL. So it should be doable.

Using something like TiddlyWiki the IDE Help can still be maintained
online, but could also be made available offline, because the wiki
content is in a single file and works exactly the same offline as it
does online. No http server or CGI scripts required to view it offline
- just a web browser.

This is also why I said, it could be handy for developers using it as
a help format for their own applications. Just a though.

Regards,
  - Graeme -


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