[tbb-dev] Current thoughts on tb-manual presentation

[Mark Smith]

On 5/28/14, 8:42 PM, Matt Pagan wrote:
> So one the hand, it seems that adding a button to open a pdf manual in
> the system's default pdf viewer software is quite doable, and would not
> require that much development effort. However, this would also reduce
> the manual's accessibility, and the user experience would not be as
> polished.
>
> On the other hand, having a locked down manual reader in the browser
> seems like it would be the most user-friendly option. However it's also
> apparent that creating it would require non-trivial research, design,
> and implementation effort. Realistically, mcs and brade would be doing
> most of this work, although I'd like to help out as I could. Do either
> of them of the time or willingness to make this a priority?

Time is the issue.  Currently, our top priorities are bug #4234 
(updater), fixing critical Tor Launcher issues, and assisting with 
Firefox patches (a new ESR release is coming soon from Mozilla, which 
will cause a spike in workload for all TBB developers, including us).

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Mark Smith
Pearl Crescent
http://pearlcrescent.com/