why make it so hard to download Fedora documentation?

[Eric Christensen]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 00:54, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>wrote:

> On 11/29/2009 07:55 PM, Brian R. Murphy wrote:
> > Sorry to bother you personally, but you seem to be responsible for the
> > FAQ, and there is no "feedback" link for the Fedora documentation page.
> >  I don't really think this question should be in the FAQ; I think it
> > should just be fixed.  But if not, perhaps you can add this question
> > (along with some answer) to the FAQ:
> >
> >     * Why do you make it so hard to download Fedora documentation?
> >
> > I would like to download the Fedora 12 documentation for off-line
> > reference while I'm upgrading.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the documentation page
> > at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ has a "clever" UI with select menus
> > that trigger navigations themselves (rather than a separate go/download
> > button), making it very arduous to "save as" the result.  There also
> > doesn't seem to be any way to just grab the latest bunch (or even a
> > single one).  There's not even a way to "save as" the PDF links, and
> > some quirky browsers (like the one I have at work) don't handle PDF
> > files too well directly.  While it wouldn't be as pretty, a simple file
> > listing would be far more useful.  If you're going to pretty it up,
> > please don't screw up basic usability.
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/ - Select PDF which is the third option
> and Language.
>
> Rahul
>
>
What format are you looking at saving the files?  We provide html,
html-single, and PDF.  If you want to save the html-single it's simple
enough to select the appropriate file and language and then save-as once the
page loads.  PDFs generally download on demand.

--Eric
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