Help system improvements (II)

[Christian Lohmaier]

Hi Kendy, *,

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 12:28 PM, Jan Holesovsky <kendy at collabora.com> wrote:
> Olivier Hallot píše v Po 29. 05. 2017 v 13:03 -0300:
> […]
>> Disadvantages (Most are further work):
>> 1) issue with offline use (file://path/to/pages/)
>
> What exactly is the issue, please?

browsers blocking loading of local files for security reason.

>> To do:
>> 3) Resolve protocol file:// for offline use (hit CORS guideline
>> restriction for browsers)
>
> What exactly is needed here, please?

for chromium, one could make the help an extension package, that way
it would be allowed to load files from a configured directory (in
other words:  add a corresponding manifest file)

see also
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787


ciao
Christian


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