Praise: Rev Documentation to the rescue

Timothy Miller gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com
Mon Jul 25 14:36:57 EDT 2005


>Dear fellow Revers,
>
>I use Rev every day like many of you and got stuck on something.  I 
>have a registration screen that works perfectly when the stack is 
>modal.  When the stack is toplevel, things fall apart.  I looked up 
>the modal command in the Rev Docs and found an answer to my 
>question.  Modal stacks stop a script in action until the modal 
>stack has been closed.  I did not realize this before.
>
>The point is, I think it is important to post once in a while how 
>the Rev Docs do work for us.  Quite possibly, they work more for us 
>than they fail us.  Over the years, there have been plenty of 
>comments on how the Docs are inadequate, but few on their 
>usefulness.  I use them every day and have a deep appreciation for 
>their existence.  Thank you to all those involved.
>
>Mark Talluto


I agree with you more than you might expect, Mark. Very often, the 
Rev docs work very well for me. It's delightful that they are 
onboard. Heaven knows I look at them every day. They have been my 
best teacher.

But Rev is advertised as "enterprise-ware" if I'm not mistaken. In 
theory, Rev is great for pros, great for novices, and great for 
do-it-yourself end-users, who possess a modicum of intelligence, 
motivation and computer experience.

Maybe it's fine for Pros, but it's too damned hard for everyone else. 
The documentation presently available is the biggest bottleneck, in 
my opinion. It still seems to me that it just wouldn't be that hard 
or expensive to make it a whole lot better.


Cheers,


Tim



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