[Lazarus] documentation snapshot

[Lubos Pintes]

Maybe there is a bit of misunderstanding.
By accessibility I meant usage with screen reader. HTML can be read in 
browser. Contrary to totally graphical viewer
I thought about this situation: There was documentation in HTML for 
years. Now something "bad" happens and one will be totally dependent on 
something pure graphical. Thus documentation becomes inaccessible by 
screen reader user.
I didn't want to be offensive. Orto criticize someone's work.
And now when I am thinking about it more, I probably made incorrect 
assumption that HTML will no more be available?
So yet another sorry if I offended someone.
Currently I am perceiving this thread as a discussion. But just to be 
sure...
Dňa 20. 4. 2013 22:57 Graeme Geldenhuys wrote / napísal(a):
> On 2013-04-20 20:21, Lubos Pintes wrote:
>> ... And something that is totally inaccessible.
> As Sven said, I have implemented a open source pure Pascal viewer that
> currently runs on Linux (even 10 year old distros), Windows 95-8,
> FreeBSD, Solaris, Raspberry Pi, WinCE and other Linux ARM Embedded
> devices. OS/2 and eComStation obviously also can read INF file because
> it is the native help format on those platforms. There are also
> INF-to-HTML converters (even IBM has some of there docs currently online
> like that). I'm also already working on extending DocView to have a PDF
> export function. Exporting a whole INF document, or selected topics to
> PDF - thus making it consumable by the select few platforms I don't yet
> support.
>
> The INF format has been well documented by myself and prior developers -
> the layout document is included in fpGUI's repository. So you are free
> to study it, and implement another viewer if you want.
>
> I'm also investigating iOS and Android viewers.
>
> The IPF Compiler (used to generate INF binary help files) is also open
> source - currently implement in OpenWatcom C/C++. I am busy implementing
> a 100% pascal compiler too.
>
> So "totally inaccessible" is grossly overstated.
>
>
>> So please, please, no something "proprietary".
> ps:
>    CHM is proprietary too, so is the old Microsoft HLP format, and so too
> is PDF. Doesn't stop anybody from using those.
>
> I studied for months various help systems and help formats. INF was
> superior for the task I wanted. It is very compact (the same help
> content is much smaller using INF, compared to PDF, HTML or even CHM),
> has Indexing support, Full Text Search, Image Support, simple markup
> language etc. Is self contained too - as single file. And most
> importantly, it can be integrated with applications so you can do
> context sensitive help.
>
>
> Regards,
>    - Graeme -
>