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Subject: RE: [docbook-apps] Autodesk Web Help
Hello, > > There is a navigation with well known buttons > > Contents/Index/Search/Favorities, but interesting is also the > > document window. There are small forward, back and top links with the > > appropriate tooltips as well as Show in content, Add to Favorities and > > Home links. In the header there is also clickable full logic path to > > the given page. > > It's just matter of generating a little bit of fancy Javascript code. > Also while in general I agree that result looks nice, some features are > not general but tied to a specific content -- like this > Concept/Procedure/QuickReference tabs for Autodesk. yes, I agree that most of the job can be provided using decent CSS styles with a little Javascript code. The most challenging features are, from my POV, searching capabilities (index & full-text search) and handling of Favourities. Autodesk uses in its products some solution from http://www.isys-search.com/ but I don't know if this has something to do with this help. In the open source world something like this could be sufficient: http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ but it requires Java container, hosting of which is more expensive than e.g. PHP. In HTML Help these features are already built-in what is, of course, reflected by Autodesk - in the page header there are suppressed Show in Content/Favorities/Home links. > In fact for one customer who insisted on using DITA we have modeled > those tabs as separated topics which were linked together using > reltables. Similar functionality could be achieved by DocBook > assemblies currently discussed in DocBook TC. Hmm, I've thought I would use subsections with the specified role attribute. Although this is not recommended, it would ensure backward compatibility. Till now I have no serious reason to abandon db v4.x. Regards, Jan PS: Nice to see there is GSoC project for this topic already ;-)
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