greree Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 I don't know if anyone has mentioned this before, but www.oscdox.com has updated the Installation and Configuration guide. It's now found at guide.oscdox.com and is no longer downloadable, which I think sucks.
rseigel Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 Why does it suck? :? He's providing an extremely valuable service (for free I might add) that is used by many many people every day. Wouldn't you want to keep all those people at your site rather than sending them off with a doc never to return again? I know I would. :wink:
greree Posted February 4, 2003 Author Posted February 4, 2003 Before the change, he was providing an extremely valuable service for free that is used by many many people every day, with the added advantage that I could download the guide in pdf format and view it on a computer that isn't connected to the internet. Now everything else is the same, which I didn't complain about, except for the part about being able to download the guide, which I think sucks. It may be advantageous to the site owner, but it isn't advantageous to me.
mattice Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 Well it has improved in one way: http://guide.oscdox.com is searchable and no hosting/sponsor ads :D Other than that I think it would be nice to offer people a choice, online or download. Mattice "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them"
toolcrazy Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 If I had my choice between an outdated downloaded version or an updated html version. I think the choice is obvios. Why does it suck? He's providing an extremely valuable service (for free I might add) that is used by many many people every day. Wouldn't you want to keep all those people at your site rather than sending them off with a doc never to return again? I know I would. I happen to agree with rseigel. It is a valuable service. Steve -------------------------
Jan0815 Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 If I had my choice between an outdated downloaded version or an updated html version. I think the choice is obvios. And I would like it to see their updated HTML-Version made available under CVS, so I can update and read offline when needed ;-) You can't have everything. That's why trains have difficulty crossing oceans, and hippos did not adapt to fly. -- from the OpenBSD mailinglist.
greree Posted February 4, 2003 Author Posted February 4, 2003 If I had my choice between an outdated downloaded version or an updated html version. I think the choice is obvios. And if I had my choice between an updated downloaded version or an updated html version, the choice would also be obvious.
rseigel Posted February 4, 2003 Posted February 4, 2003 And if I had my choice between an updated downloaded version or an updated html version, the choice would also be obvious. Well, nobody's stopping you from making your own I suppose. :wink:
loxly Posted February 5, 2003 Posted February 5, 2003 It isn't that difficult to download html pages to your own computer if you REALLY need to read it offline. Debbie [no external urls in signatures please, kthanks]
Guest Posted February 5, 2003 Posted February 5, 2003 Well, my 2 cents is that I'm glad I have my downloaded copy....It won't load for me at all in Netscape.....It gets about 3/4 of the way and starts over again...it's stuck in a loop of some sort. As for downloading it to read offline...I must be having a brain cramp but so far I having figured out how to get the whole thing at once. I would hate to have to get it one page at a time. It's really too bad that both formats aren't available.
greree Posted February 5, 2003 Author Posted February 5, 2003 The computer I do my osCommerce configuring on is in another room and not connected to the internet at all. I don't have room for it in here, and I'm running Linux on it to do my configuring, so it's not practical to switch over my osCommerce stuff to this computer, which is running XP. Before, I just downloaded the OSCDox in pdf format to a cd, then took it to my other computer. That way I could read the manual line by line as I read the code, or even cut and paste code if I wanted to. With this new design there isn't a practical way to transfer it to my computer, since the new guide uses frames and links for each page. I'm glad that someone is taking the time to put together an install doc for osCommerce, and I appreciate the work he's put into it. But I am allowed to express my opinion, and I still say having a web only guide sucks.
jeanjerome Posted February 5, 2003 Posted February 5, 2003 Quick feedback on this issue... It is also nice to be able to easely print the docs. Html can sometime be easy to print, but not here. Of course, digital is better for trees... :D
Guest Posted February 6, 2003 Posted February 6, 2003 If everyone is so desperate for an adobe version, let me know and I can create one :-) Personally I like the new and improved site many more tips avaliable!
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