[Phpmyadmin-devel] Re: suggestion for Documentation after 2.3

[Beck, Mike]

> > My idea was to introduce something like context help in phpMyAdmin.
> > I'd also add those ? icons to the interface, but instead of 
> jumping to an
> > anchor in the documentation I'd prefer to display a short 
> (maybe even
> > localized) text in a JS window that tells the user more a 
> bout a specific interface
> > element.
> > I'd also offer this context help for popular error messages 
> i.e. if the
> > MySQL server refuses the username / password.
> 
> 
> I definitely support this idea of context help, using the /lang files.
> 

well i would use javascript if possible as well, but do you mean just using
an alert()?
i'd rather open a new window each time the user clicks on the ? instead of
sending all the strings with the page when he opens it so i can just display
them as a message. because otherwise we'd really have to write _very_ short
helptext or we would be sending a lot of helptext data which only few users
will ever see.

which is also why i wouldn't put them in the normal lang files - these get
included on every page, so with every page we'd be putting every available
shorthelp for all pages ....