Re: Another opinion on InfoCenter

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

James, try it again. The speed of the menu is now fantastic. Links TO 
InfoCenter articles from, e.g., the IBM Support search go right there - 
fantastic.

Now, there are still problems. But this shows that IBM has listened. 
Praiseworthy effort, IMO. Let's encourage IBM's people - and they are 
people, after all - to do this well ongoing.

OTOH, I really liked the SoftCopy manuals - nicely searchable and all that. 
And there was a brief stab at using PDFs and PDF indexes that was really 
nice, too - not sure why it was dropped.

You can still get at many of the SoftCopy books online - try this link

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/LIBRARY

Vern

At 12:32 PM 5/14/2005, you wrote:

> > I, for one, have had it! The IBM InfoCenter site, while containing the 
> > great nuggets of truth, is the dunghill of
> > Web design and functionality.
>
> No s***?!?!
>
> They HAD a couple of perfectly usable systems: Softcopy/BookManager, and 
> printed manuals. I use both like crazy. Why they'd come up with such a 
> kludge, that makes utterly unnecessary use of Java, and works as 
> advertised on no known browser, with no known JVM, to replace it, is beyond me.
>
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