[Bf-funboard] Integrated Blender Web Browser Proposal

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Martin Poirier wrote:

>--- Robert Wenzlaff <rwenzlaff@soylent-green.com>
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>>At 03:03 PM 1/6/04 +0100, you wrote:
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>http://cardiffhigh.cardiff.sch.uk/~daniel.cook/blender/proposals/broswer/proposal.html
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>>>Mmh,far as I understand, a web-browser is quite a
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>>complex beast.
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>>>Maybe if already existing components could be used
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>>(gecko)?
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>>>But I guess it's overkill. Better make that a help
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>>browser with
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>>>very specific functionlity, just to get it's job
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>>done.
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>>>Of course a direct way to acess docs from the web
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>>would be
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>>>nice, but that doesn't mean it must be a complete
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>>web-browser.
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>>Why not just allow the user to supply a command line
>>to invoke his/her own 
>>browser via a system function call.?
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>There's a python module that does that, so we could
>try borrowing the code :)
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>Martin
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As a user I find integrated help to be irritating because you can't 
separate the help window from the application.  Its not useful because 
there are situations where you'd like to read something outside the 
context of actually using the program in question.  Invoking an external 
browser is a much better idea.  But we're all missing the larger issue here:

Blender needs to have complete documentation first.