[josm-dev] Remove internal help browser?

[Sebastian Klein]

Karl Guggisberg wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I plan to remove JOSMs internal help browser and to always delegate to an
 > external browser, for two reasons:
Good idea.

Having an internal browser for help seems quite strange and 
old-fashioned to me.

Also, the current version is far from usable.

Nowadays, if there is some problem, you open a browser and google it.  
If it isn't answered in some forum immediately, you will at least find 
the documentation and try to resolve it there.

Regarding this F1 thing - no one will get it. Best you can do is put 
some big inviting help button on the dialog that might need explanation. 
(But only if there is some documentation available.) It's quite 
pointless to press F1 and get an empty page each time.

Dirk Stöcker wrote:
 > 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.

So many applications do this browser launch thing, it can't be that awful.

Cheers,

Sebastian