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Interesting concept http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/downloadable.weblet.html http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patter
by nejsjsjsbsb 2y ago
Interesting concept http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/downloadable.weblet.html http://www.rdrop.com/~half/Creations/Writings/Web.patterns/d...
- notpushkin 2y agoI remember some 2010s websites offering a CHM version to download. Pretty neat for some things you might want to reference offline.
- nejsjsjsbsb 2y agoI used to think creating a CHM was peak professionalism. I'm a mini Microsoft! Actually I'd go back to CHMs for docs. A modern reader would be good tho.
- notpushkin 2y agoYeah, I keep thinking that CHM was the peak format for offline docs. Today we have Kiwix [0] and Dash/Zeal [1] – both amazing projects, but somehow they feel more complex, and the formats they use aren’t as ubiquitous. [0]: https://kiwix.org/en/ https://kiwix.org/en/ [1]: https://kapeli.com/dash https://kapeli.com/dash for macOS, https://zealdocs.org/ https://zealdocs.org/ for others
- ndileas 2y agoThe other day I crammed some awful internal docs into zeal. It was a fun time, good format -- was able to reverse engineer it without looking at the specs in an hour or so. I wanted to be able to look at those docs having to remember exactly where they were every time.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoIs there a term for the situation that, when there's a dozen different products competing in the same space, there may as well be none?
- notpushkin 2y agoI don’t think so, but there is a number. [927] [927]: https://xkcd.com/927/ https://xkcd.com/927/
- sudahtigabulan 2y agoChoice paralysis, choice overload, analysis paralysis.