- From: Ben Meadowcroft <ben@benmeadowcroft.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 10:30:44 +0100
I think the web apps 1.0 specification is lacking a section on on-line help. This is a topic which I feel the current work could helpfully handle. There are two types of help that I think are appropriate for web applications, full page help and element sensitive help. I'd suggest first that we standardise a method of linking an application page to it's help page. This could be done by specifying a link relation type specifically for online help. For example: <link href="/help-pages/page1.html" rel="help" type="text/html" title="MyApp Help"> The user agent could then allow users to access the on-line help using the browser UI, i.e. from the help menu where the application specific help could be made available or by pressing the F1 key. My second proposal is to standardise element context help. This will allow a user to get context sensitive help on a particular area of the web page when mousing over or clicking parts of the page (depending on how the OS implements similar features I suppose). This could be enabled by allowing elements to have a context-help attribute (similar to the context-menu attribute proposed). -- Ben Meadowcroft http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3034 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20050508/0d3cb193/attachment.bin>
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