[plt-scheme] IE Warnings

From: Eli Barzilay (eli at barzilay.org)
Date: Thu Jun 26 16:33:07 EDT 2008

On Jun 26, YC wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:44 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > > IMHO html files is easier to read from a web server (local or
> > > remote) rather than a file system.
> >
> > I know, but a web server has a bunch of other problems.  (Like
> > managing another process, or complications from firewalls etc.)
> 
> Another possible approach (if you are willing to have a window's
> specific solution) is to use chm files - it cleanly gets around all
> the above issues, but you might not be able to convert your html
> files into chm file cleanly.  Of course - if you are willing to
> consider this one, you are probably considering hta already.

I don't want to deal with chm because it means a completely different
package for Windows.  It also breaks the file-url--online-url
translation that is right now trivial.


> As far as I can tell, these are fundamentally "deployment problem"s
> that you'll run into as long as you are deploying to client
> machines.  The only way you can effective remove deployment problems
> is not to deploy at all.  But that might not fit your requirement.

Yes, not including the docs in the Windows distributions is a working
solution...  Just not a very good one...

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