Re: Google Doc in Comic Book Form

["Janet Swisher" <jmswisher -at- gmail -dot- com>]

On 9/2/08, jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com <jlshaeffer -at- aol -dot- com> wrote:
>
>  I would agree with your
> critique, if I thought that the comic was meant to serve as a user
> guide or reference manual. Since I see its genre as more executive
> summary or white paper, it seems to do a good job. (A comic book as a
> format for white papers is certainly intriguing.)

That's how it was received on a developer-oriented mailing list I'm
on: "a very cool alternative to writing white papers"

Even as a white paper, it would be helpful to have a browseable TOC
instead of just page numbers. That way readers could jump to the
topics that most interested them, instead of having to read through
everything to find them.


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