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| <td align=left width="72%" valign="top"> <font class=indextop> User Assistance</font> <br> |
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| <p>If you are already a Platform User Assistance developer, check out the <a href="dev.html">Development |
| Resources</a>.</p> |
| <p>If you just need a high level description of the Eclipse User |
| Assistance, please read the <a href="overview.html">overview document</a>.</p> |
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| <p>The Platform User Assistance component provides the mechanisms for |
| making the Eclipse applications easier to use. These mechanisms are made |
| available throughout usage life cycle and include initial user |
| experience (welcome), online documentation, dynamic help, search, cheat |
| sheets, automation and samples.</p> |
| <p>The goal of this component is to make it easier for users to accomplish |
| their tasks in Eclipse applications. While it includes the traditional |
| book-based help system, increasing effort is spent towards bringing |
| assistance closer to the user. Welcome, dynamic help view and cheat |
| sheets are examples of user assistance vehicles that can be used that |
| way.</p> |
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| <td align=LEFT valign=TOP colspan="2" bgcolor="#0080C0"><b><font face="Arial,Helvetica" color="#FFFFFF">What's |
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| <p>The focus now is on exploring ways to make documentation contribution |
| more dynamic. The experience of using XHTML to make initial user |
| experience easier to author is now examined for online help |
| documentation. Similar technique can be used to support content reuse |
| and contribution. Federated search introduced in 3.1 is being enhanced |
| to support pluggable indexing and search participants so that all UA |
| vehicles can be indexed and searched at once. </p> |
| <p>For more detailed information, check out the <a href="dev.html">Development |
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| <h4>3.2 Development Effort - Milestone 2 (September 23 2005)</h4> |
| <h5>Key Dates</h5> |
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| <li>R3.2 Milestone 2: September 23, 2005</li> |
| <li>Last day of development: September 16,2005</li> |
| <li>Build/test/fix pass: September 19, 2005</li> |
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| <p><b>Development Highlights</b></p> |
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| <li><img border="0" src="images/glass.gif" width="10" height="10"> |
| Investigating use of XHTML for dynamic help documentation (for content |
| reuse, contribution and conditional filtering)</li> |
| <li><img border="0" src="images/glass.gif" width="10" height="10"> |
| Investigating more flexible alternatives to customization.ini for TOC |
| ordering</li> |
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| <p>If you are interested in participating in the development of the User |
| Assistance component, |
| check out the developer's mailing list: <a href="http://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-ua-dev">platform-ua-dev@eclipse.org</a>. |
| Chat with people there about your problems and interests, and find out |
| what you can do to help. </p> |
| <p>In particular, if you have experience programming the multiplicity of available HTML browsers, |
| are interested in document search technologies, |
| have worked with servlets and jsp's, would like to Eclipse-enable existing embedded browser controls, |
| or are interested in evolving a tooling story targeted at Eclipse information developers, the |
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| team would like to hear from you.</p> |
| <p>For more detailed information, check out the <a href="dev.html">Development |
| Resources</a>.</p> |
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