Re: And feedback on designing an online help system?

["Joshua D. Drake" <..hidden..>]

Ed W wrote:
> Hi
> 
>> 2)  "tooltip" description for specific widgets on the screens.
>>
>> Any other thoughts?
>>   
> 
> 
> I think that the tooltip alone would be a massive, massive improvement 
> and could perhaps be implemented in a similar way via the existing 
> translations module?
> 
> I think that SQL-L was always deliberately obfuscated to try and create 
> value from the manual.
> 
> One could argue that a "help" link on each major page would be useful, 
> but really it's only a 10% improvement over reading the manual, so don't 
> feel that anything more than tooltips is required...

When we go ajax, it would be very cool to be able to click help on a
particular area and have that part of the manual come up in a small overlay.


J




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