Re: Ideas on embedding help in customer-configurable software?

[Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

> I had a job interview Wednesday, and one question intrigued me.  They want to
> create an API for their application.  It is very configurable by the customer,
> and it links in to the customer's IT records.  They asked how I would approach
> providing on-line help in this ....flexible situation.
> 
> I pointed out that, if the online help were implemented in HTML/XML, it could be
> handled with CSS--where an unnumbered list could appear as a bulleted list in
> one manifestation, a set of tabs in another, a dropdown list in another....
> 
> Does anybody have experience with such a situation, or can anyone point me to
> any resources on the web that address the matter?

Help for an API... are they confined to a particular IDE?

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Bill Swallow
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