best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?
Carol J. Elkins
celkins at awrittenword.com
Mon Feb 11 09:37:34 PST 2013
Matt, yes I am using RH's Multiscreen output. I'm annoyed at the
differences in the out-of-box options for the various device outputs.
There doesn't appear to be a unified "set" that retains the same
color scheme or other skin characteristics. But my biggest whine is
that RH10 treats the device outputs as separate entities with a
separate folder for each output device. There is a separate index.htm
file for each output device. And within each device folder, the
entire set of templates for each device is repeated. For example,
here is a simplified folder structure to illustrate:
!ISSL!
--Multiscreen_HTML5
----|android_galaxy_tab
------|index.html plus my project files
------|template
---------|Android_Phone_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
--------|-Desktop_Knowledge
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|iPad_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|iPhone_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|Kindle_Fire_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|resources
---------|scripts
------|whxdata
----|android_phone
------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
----|desktop
------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
----|ipad
-------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
---|iphone
------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
----|kindle_fire
I don't understand why the redundancy is necessary. So what I'd like
to know is whether or not WWP's output contains this redundancy or
whether they build all of this into one separate HTML5 and one
separate css. It seems to me that as the device market expands and
new devices are added, RH will be limited by what it is currently
configured for. What I see in WWP suggests that their coding will be
truly "responsive" and flexible regardless of the device that
displays the output. If I'm wrong here about either product, let me
know. That's what I'm trying to determine.
Carol
At 09:38 AM 2/11/2013, you wrote:
>@Carol, are you using RH's HTML5 SSL, called Multiscreen?
>
>Although you can still create SSL's per device, using Mulitscreen as
>your SSL produces only one set of HTML files, with a single CSS3 to
>do exactly what you mentioned in your post.
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