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4705: Re: [MUD-Dev] Java and Javascript

On Wed, 18 Feb 1998 coder@ibm.net wrote:
> On 16/02/98 at 03:37 PM, Matt Chatterley <matt@mpc.dyn.ml.org> said: >On
> Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Caliban Tiresias Darklock wrote:
> >> At 11:11 AM 2/14/98 +0000, Mat Chatterley wrote:
> 
> >Actually, I can't think of any extra functionality that could be offered
> >by a Browser based client. Could you give some examples? (Genuine
> >interest). How would you find it more convenient?
> 
> HTML based help and documentation.  exmh and lynx do this particular
> aspect rather well for example (not surprising in Lynx's case).

Okay, this *is* a good one - interwoven and linked helpfiles are a good
thing (tm). Caffeine's helpsystem is developing towards this (it currently
supports regexp searching and a 'menu based' browsing front end; adding a
mechanism for hyperlinks shouldn't be too bad).

One problem mentioned in another thread by someone was people using help
but not knowing where the designers may have put helpfiles. This is one
region where this can alleviate the problem; allow lists of 'aliases' for
a helpfile eg:

Armour: ac protection wear

so that typing help <any of those four> will bring up the 'armour'
helpfile. And so forth.

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Regards,
	-Matt Chatterley
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