RE: Future of documentation in Web-based apps
The future for web-based applications and documentation will be
embedded, context-sensitive help.
Specifically, a fraction of the real-estate for the "dialog box" (or
webpage) will be partitioned off to display documentation. Let's say it
is always the right 1/3 of the screen (unless the user resizes it or
minimizes it).
There will be some icon, mouse-over mechanism, etc. in the application
2/3 of the screen that will control the documentation 1/3 to show a list
of topics relating to that the "active" item. Or maybe the documentation
1/3 just contains a list of topics relating to the items in the
application 2/3.
On what sized screen? 15 inch CRT's are still common. On 17 inch CRTs the real estate is still too valuable to lose 1/3 or it.
Scott
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