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Revision as of 06:25, 6 March 2005
, 6 March 2005Adding stuff re: Help viewer in Thunderbird - status update
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I finally figured out the problem. On Windows the help system doesn't have the latin1 and HTMLspecial (i.e. mdash) character entities available. Don't know why Windows doesn't and Mac and Linux versions do. I downloaded the dtd files and referenced them in the xhtml files and help content is now visible. --[[User:Roan|Roan]] 17:34, 31 Jan 2005 (PST) | I finally figured out the problem. On Windows the help system doesn't have the latin1 and HTMLspecial (i.e. mdash) character entities available. Don't know why Windows doesn't and Mac and Linux versions do. I downloaded the dtd files and referenced them in the xhtml files and help content is now visible. --[[User:Roan|Roan]] 17:34, 31 Jan 2005 (PST) | ||
==== Getting the Help Viewer (mostly without content) in Thunderbird nightly builds ==== | |||
At this point, Help Viewer in Thunderbird is stuck because we're waiting for one fix that will make things quite a bit easier: [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238060 Thunderbird needs to use toolkit's typeaheadfind]. This bug's big because currently Help in Firefox uses the Find Bar, which is not available in Thunderbird. Editing the code so that Help in Thunderbird doesn't use the Find Bar is more or less trivial from a code standpoint (in fact, I've done this in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279227 bug 279227]), but from a political standpoint it's not going to happen. (Basically, doing so would require the insertion of a few app-specific ifdefs in toolkit code, which is a no-go -- see the comments in the previously-mentioned bug.) I've appealed to mscott for him to add typeaheadfind to Thunderbird, so we'll see how that goes. (If you have the expertise to do this, feel free to create a patch -- I don't care who makes it so long as it gets done and done correctly.)--[[User:Waldo|Waldo]] 22:25, 5 Mar 2005 (PST) | |||