[svnbook commit] r1750 - trunk/src/en/book

C. Michael Pilato cmpilato at red-bean.com
Mon Oct 24 22:03:40 CDT 2005


Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:

>On 10/24/05, cmpilato <svnbook-dev at red-bean.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>Author: cmpilato
>>Date: Mon Oct 24 11:48:39 2005
>>New Revision: 1750
>>
>>Modified:
>>   trunk/src/en/book/appb.xml
>>Log:
>>Rework Appendix B to have the natural organizational heirarchy that its text
>>described, but that its layout failed to support.
>>
>I like what you've done here, thanks.  I think it's a much more
>natural flow.  But I still think it's useful to have the initial
>table, so that it's easy to see the levels of DAV support as a "quick
>glance" sort of thing.  A number of folks have thanked us for that
>table in the past, and now that information is soley buried in the
>prose.
>  
>
I agree that a quick glance is in order, but your table was 
unfortunately a poor format for that kind of information.  With the 
exception of "Windows Webfolders", no row had a checkbox in more than 
one column (and Webfolders should have only had one) -- that's a sign 
that a multi-column checkbox isn't the right format.  If instead you 
want to do something like this:

    Standalone applications
    	Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, ...
    Explorer extensions
    	Webfolders, Nautilus, ...
    Filesystem implementations
    	Mac OS X, ...

That's fine.  It ain't like there's so many of these things listed that 
the application names need to be the "keys" into the table -- a quick 
vgrep does the trick.
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