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Worked on roughing out a support site a little more tonight Right now I have it here on my opml.org account. Maybe it would be good to move it to a Manila setup before it grows too much more, regardless of the manual piece. Did I just say "piece?" I hate that. I try never to say "piece" or "space." I associate those words with khakis and MBAs who played inside the last bubble. The ones I knew didn't love the internet -- none of them. They just wanted to be in on it. And they had this language. Happy Birthday, Wilk! I'm afraid I'm going to turn 52 this year, too. How old are your kids? Backing off Looks like Lisa has some definite ideas about the docs and more experience than I have in producing a manual for an open source product. I'm happy to back off on the docs and concentrate on the support site. (Lisa, did you get my email about asking Dan about the password for opmlcommunity.org?) Maybe it's a good time to mention that I know myself, and I can see a day when I won't want to continue to maintain the support site. I get itchy and want to do another new thing. I'm not saying I won't see it through the release date and maybe many months beyond, just not signing up for eternity. Volunteer needed Would someone be willing to describe the programmers menu in the same way that Lisa has documented the rest of the OPML Editor menu items? Maybe someday I wonder if it's possible to cause an OPML browser or renderer to preserve the expansion state of an outline. One thing I think is cool about the instant outliner is the ability to draw a collaborator's attention to a single node of an outline by leaving it expanded while all the others are closed. Here's what I really would like to have been able to do in pointing to the docs outline: link not just to Lisa's outline, but the superordinate one which includes it. But at the same time I'm making the broader view available, I want to pull the user's focus to the fifth level node I'm talking about, like an internal [a name] HTML link. Of course if you can get every user to install the editor and use the instant outliner, you wouldn't need to have extra HTML rendering. Even in an internal organization collaboration scenario, though, you're not going be able to make everyone take the trouble and you'll want to be able to point them to a link they can open in a browser. I don't always get Dave's parables But I wouldn't enjoy reading him so much if he stopped wearing the veil altogether. I like throwing in the odd oblique reference myself. The Jane Austen site I used to be associated with had a special place for people who liked to be cryptic. It was a hard-to-find message board we called The Crypt. Dan's browser is getting noticed Adam Green's using it as a renderer in an iframe. |
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