[josm-dev] Remove internal help browser?

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009, Karl Guggisberg wrote:

> I plan to remove JOSMs internal help browser and to always delegate to an
> external browser, for two reasons:
>
>   1. help in the internal browser looks ugly
>   2. if the internal help browser is launched from a modal dialog (error
> message, the upload dialog,
>      etc.) it is barely usable unless the modal dialog is closed
>
> Any objections?

Yes. External browsers have too many drawbacks regarding visibility and 
launching. If you do not like the internal one, then make it configurable 
to disable it.

Better would be to fix the problems you describe above.

Ciao
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