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Sad FAQ
Dan Simoes sez:
> How about channeling all that
> creative energy into writing a real FAQ?
Yes, I did say I'd try to write one, didn't I?
My energies, alas, are currently all channeled into version 10.4 of
Unigraphics, which is consuming developers' energies in the same way
that Ur-quattros consume money.
I did make some progress on it, but haven't been able to touch the document
in over two months, and probably won't have time to look at it for another
few months. Anyone want to take charge of a used FAQ? One careless owner,
no service history...
The real problem, of course, is not obtaining the information (there's
hundreds of mail messages and extracts from other articles clogging up
our disk) but in organising, and presenting it. An ideal presentation
of it would be some kind hierarchical browser - a top level menu with
entries such as "General Questions", "Model Details", leading to more
detailed information on a specific topic. ("Model Details" leads you
to a menu with "Ur-quattro", "80", "100" etc.)
It would also be nice if anyone could add extra information - say I find
a nice picture of an RS2, or wish to add some extra details to the
description of how to replace the rear shocks on an eary model 5000, I could
just connect to the Audi home page, find the right section, and add my
files. (I'm aware that one retrieve stuff from swiss.and.net, and download new
information, but when you're just presented with a flat file structure it's a
bit hard to navigate through it.)
Any HTML gurus out there?
More to the point, does anyone want to have a bash at adding more to the
FAQ? You can take what I've done as a starting point (or an example of how
not to do it if you prefer.
Alasdair
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Alasdair Mackintosh Shape Data, EDS Unigraphics
mackinto@ug.eds.com Parker's House, Regent St
+44 223 371608 Cambridge, CB2 1DP, U.K.