http://www.itauthor.com/2005/05/19/ways-to-read-the-microsoftpublichelpauthoring-newsgroup/ Stuff about technical writing and software Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:42:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.itauthor.com/2005/05/19/ways-to-read-the-microsoftpublichelpauthoring-newsgroup/comment-page-1/#comment-7379 portado Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:31:53 +0000 http://www.itauthor.com/wordpress/?p=147#comment-7379 "It's a fairly obvious idea - but then those are sometimes the best ones. Imagine you want to include in your help system a link to a large user manual in PDF form. When the user clicks the link you want the PDF to open up in a new browser window. Nothing difficult here, but the problem is that on slow machines this can take a while. The user clicks the link and thinks it's broken because nothing happens straight away." What I can not believe! "It's a fairly obvious idea - but then those are sometimes the best ones. Imagine you want to include in your help system a link to a large user manual in PDF form. When the user clicks the link you want the PDF to open up in a new browser window. Nothing difficult here, but the problem is that on slow machines this can take a while. The user clicks the link and thinks it's broken because nothing happens straight away."
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