Request to package offline user documentation

Goals

The FAQ has already been bundled with the DC client under the Settings → Help menu.

It would be beneficial to include further docs to help a user troubleshoot more issues. It could be either bundled in the DC client, or shipped as a separate webxdc.

Maintenance

To ensure long term maintainability, it ought to be built automatically from the sources, not by hand, in order for it to assimilate upstream updates.

Features

  • efficient storage
  • rendering of rich content
  • rewrite those external links to internal ones whose target is included in the bundle
  • follow internal links
  • tabbed browsing
  • bookmarking articles and sections
  • ranked fuzzy search observing synonyms with context enriched from parents and weighted siblings
  • show a deep link to the respective original source page to enable providing a correction upstream
  • also usable outside Delta Chat, rendered on a static VCS page (ideally as a single page app that can be saved as a file with a single click)
  • include the internationalized versions of content that already exists

Sources

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