[Michael Chermside] > I'm a Windows user, and I tend to prefer using html docs. Am I > unusual in this regard? [Tim Peters] > I don't know. Have you used a .chm file for Python docs (one has been > separately downloadable for years, but not from python.org)? Nope. [Tim continues] > The display is > identical to what you'd see if you used IE to browse the HTML docs directly > today, so it's unclear what it is about "html docs" you might prefer. Mostly just that it's "more standard". I can view in a browser of my choice, launch a browser from within my editor/IDE, set bookmarks (but I don't usually do that), share on a drive and view from unix (but I don't do that), etc. [Tim again] > The > prime usability gain is that the .chm file supports full-text search across > the whole set of Python docs, including Boolean (AND, OR, NOT) and proximity > (NEAR) searches. Well, that's a significant feature! I don't want to knock a technology that I haven't even really tried... just wanted to point out that there are some advantages to HTML. I guess I think Guido's "beta test" idea sounds good -- I can't think of any other way we'd actually get feedback from users. Maybe a mention in "What's New In" under the title "where are the html docs?" could give the gripers a place to complain to so they can be counted. Nobody-uses-html-any-more-that-was-so-1990's lly yours, -- Michael Chermside
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4