Does anyone care if I get rid of the offline version of the bB page?

[+Random Terrain]

If most people use the regular bB page and hardly ever download the offline manual, I'd like to get rid of it. Then I wouldn't have to update two folders whenever I add example programs or whenever I make changes to the example programs.

[Keatah]

I absolutely hate online only material. Archiving and saving for the future is important. But that's just me.

 

I suppose I could save the page via various other methods..

[Andromeda Stardust]

If in the future the Bb site goes down, people would still have the latest build to trade and redistribute. If an offline tutorial does not exist, where will people go to look up the info? It would also be nice if people could code games on their laptop and lookup tutorials even if they're in some place that doesn't have wifi. Offline manuals also reduce server load.

[Keatah]

When I first got Microsoft Word 2.0 I got it with my 486 DX2/50. I got a huge manual for it, for the computer, for Windows, and various other papers and things. It was great! I could read it while taking a shit, or waiting in the hospital for my colonoscopy.

 

When I got my Pentium-M in 2004 I got a few thin leaflets of paper a quickstart guide. I had trouble adjusting initially to the on-disk documentation (of which there was plenty). Once I learned the search feature I was alright with it. It was complete and still easily accessible anytime anyplace.

 

Now, when I upgraded to iTunes 11 it had online documentation, documentation I could only read when connected to the internet. I'm like what the fuck is this? Are they too lazy to give me real paper or locally saved material? That was 2 years ago. I still cannot get used to the ideal of online-only instruction manuals. Perhaps it is a good thing. And by the way, I downgraded my iTunes version to one that has a real locally located help file.

[Osgeld]

http://www.hulu.com/watch/26211

 

I personally like offline documentation, but I hardly use BB so I have never downloaded it. Seems to me if there is enough reason to keep it around that you could update the online version and use wget or some other similar site download tool and make it offline real quick (and once you do it if you keep it around it will only download pages that have changed)

[+Gemintronic]

I don't always program with Internet access. maybe a .PDF I could download would be great (posted on R.T.s web site).

[RevEng]

If you're updating both offline and online versions, ditch the current offline version. Get the firefox "print pages to pdf" extension and use it to generate the offline version whenever you update the online version.

 

I just tested it on the commands page. It looks great, and the in-document links work too.

[+Random Terrain]

If you're updating both offline and online versions, ditch the current offline version. Get the firefox "print pages to pdf" extension and use it to generate the offline version whenever you update the online version.

 

I just tested it on the commands page. It looks great, and the in-document links work too.

 

Wow, that does work pretty good. It just wouldn't work out since clicking on an example program link tries to access the Internet.

 

I'll just keep updating the zip file like I have been.

 

Thanks for the replies.

[Osgeld]

I have used wget (linux unix) and some other free utilities in the past to download program wiki's (for second life when I did that) its a bitch to setup but once you do make a change on the website, click a shortcut on your computer and boom everything you want as a offline HTML file, just a thought

[+Random Terrain]

I have used wget (linux unix) and some other free utilities in the past to download program wiki's (for second life when I did that) its a bitch to setup but once you do make a change on the website, click a shortcut on your computer and boom everything you want as a offline HTML file, just a thought

Thanks. It would probably easier to just do what I'm doing since I'm allergic to command line stuff.

[Keatah]

Maybe less frequent updates would help? Don't get all flustered dick'n round with new utilities or ways of doing things. Go with what works.

 

But yes. The offline documentation is appreciated by us few that use it.

Edited July 20, 2014 by Keatah

[+Atarius Maximus]

Ha. I'm in the minority. I usually code at work when I always have internet access, so I've never used the offline version. Didn't even know there was one.

[+Atarius Maximus]

Thanks. It would probably easier to just do what I'm doing since I'm allergic to command line stuff.

 

That must be why I'm always feeling so sick during the day. I'm allergic to a GUI interface, but am forced to use Windows 7 all day at work. Long live the CLI.