Bug 97629 (New-Help)

Summary:	[META] Help Content Modernization
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Olivier Hallot <olivier.hallot>
Component:	Documentation	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	libretraining.tutorials, raal, rb.henschel, sockseight, sophia.schroeder, thomas.lendo
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105581 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120201 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120200
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Bug Depends on:	116571, 118588, 118589, 119405, 121601, 127565, 130299, 137644, 138485, 139926, 140595, 141990, 145134, 147427, 148016, 150163, 154226, 33209, 41739, 94017, 95543, 97628, 97745, 112370, 112754, 112755, 112756, 112757, 112758, 112804, 112863, 114709, 114907, 115254, 115255, 115312, 115663, 115685, 115713, 116150, 116240, 116296, 116745, 117551, 118148, 118330, 118430, 118571, 118583, 118584, 118586, 118844, 119230, 119415, 119465, 119549, 120538, 121065, 121571, 121947, 122366, 122548, 123318, 123546, 123792, 124130, 125117, 125178, 126813, 127566, 127661, 128519, 129697, 129870, 133928, 139216, 140413, 140518, 142380, 144859, 150689, 150909, 157360, 160467
Bug Blocks:	106040

Description Olivier Hallot 2016-02-07 22:20:36 UTC

This meta bug collect other bugs related to the Help Content Modernization ( https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Help_Content_Modernization ).

Rationale: 

Since the birth of OpenOffice.org, the help content has relied in a set of tools developed internally. In particular, the display of the help pages is done by a XSLT transform of XML files in a primitive browser with very few graphic, multimedia and rendering resources.

The objective of this project is to replace the local help application into a modern browser with the 2016's web technology. The advantages are many:

* Eliminate an internal piece of code (internal browser) that is very old and resource limited, almost untouched since a decade, and
* Use modern system's browser to display the help content.
* Add modern resources such as multimedia, MathML, SVG, GIFs into the local help content for better user experience.
* Build bridges to make the help content available to on-line servers, with the same capabilities of the local help.
* Ease the access of the community in contributing to help content.

Comment 1 Olivier Hallot 2016-02-11 12:08:59 UTC

Elimination of the browser code is not to be carried as it is Writer/Web that renders help pages.