Thread: Need help with putting the old Tablet School text on the wiki
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Originally Posted by krisse View Post
Ahhh, hang on, you mean like a sub-directory of a website?
Yes. "Namespace" is the wrong term, as GeneralAntilles pointed out. I can't remember what the right one is - but "sub-directory" seems to be pretty understandable :-)

The OS thing could be a problem as some of the tutorials only work with Chinook (mostly the ones that depend on host mode as there's no easy way to put Diablo tablets into host mode AFAIK).
Isn't the OS categorisation a good thing if they only work on certain OSes? Anyway, as for USB host on Diablo - I start "USB" from my "Settings" application menu and click "Host".

If I had the appropriate cable, I wouldn't even need to do that - but I use the as-shipped cable and a gender-bender.

Also, beginners probably won't know what their OS version is because it's not really mentioned anywhere in the interface. They are much more likely to just know the model number of their tablet, and whether they have updated the firmware.
Oh, indeed - but I'm not imagining people having to guess the URLs ;-)

The approach perhaps ought to be that people find tutorials by tablet model, and are told to update to the latest firmware in order to make the tutorial work. That way they wouldn't have to know anything about firmware versions, merely make sure they have updated the firmware recently.
Sounds sensible. Could even have nice large images of each of the tablets to click on.

[quote]Of course it would mean the tutorials would all have to be checked (and possibly updated) to make sure they work with Diablo.

Aye, not too much of a problem if they're only text.

[Titles: ]Clarity might be more important than consistency. Some tutorial titles lend themselves to "how to" but others don't. Couldn't titles be done on a case-by-case basis?
Depends if the index is going to be maintained by hand (allowing different titles on the index from the page itself) or auto-generated as much as possible.

I favour the latter (reduces work), and so would try strenuously to avoid a "how to" prefix unless absolutely necessary. After all, it's a tutorial - it's going to be a "how to".
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