Comments on: The problem with LiveDocs

By: matt schick

matt schick — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:44:42 +0000

If adobe wants as3 to be taken seriously and move away from the image of actionscript being a buggy language they should really fix their documentation, something which many developers including myself look at as a representation of how solid and refined the language is.

By: Bill Shirley

Bill Shirley — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:03:59 +0000

#3 google hit on “adobe livedocs problem”

To make matters worse, it’s now not even returning the correct documents.

For the past week, I haven’t been able to get consistent results.

My daily routine is now

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/langref/

click DataGrid, and then traverse the inheritance hierarcy,

today: failed on first click, RadioButton in Chinese for DataGrid

I commented on one of the pages when it was working last week and got a response that they’re aware of it, but can’t get it to fail in a consistent way, but are working on it. We’ll see.

But, why can’t I download a copy of the API docs? That’s the ridiculous part.

By: Michael Kaufman

Michael Kaufman — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:23:16 +0000

I’m very glad to read Adobe is trying to remedy the problem. Really, not to point blame at anyone, but I remember attending a user group meeting shortly before the release of Flash 8 and personally asked Mike Downey, “are there any plans to fix Live Docs when you release Flash 8?” His answer was, not sarcastically, “Live Docs… what is that?”

I was just kind of shocked by the answer. Obviously, there was a corporate/end-user disconnect with this part of the platform that we’re still bitching about today.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:20:01 +0000

Yeah I hear that, a perfect example of when help isn’t helpful

By: aral

aral — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 23:20:07 +0000

Great suggestion, Mike — love it! REST would rock.

By: Mike Britton

Mike Britton — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 18:24:31 +0000

How about exposing the livedocs as REST web services? Let different users consume them the way they want. Provide a basic Apollo-driven UI. Build the same connectivity into all the products, with the ability to fetch all of the docs and save them down as XML?

There are so many possibilities in this area.

By: LEE

LEE — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 05:36:30 +0000

Oh hey, I neglected to mention, LiveDocs work pretty good for me in Firefox. Or was I just happy that they worked….

By: Dustin Senos

Dustin Senos — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:24:07 +0000

( I am always looking for suggestions to add. For any of the languages listed. Please let me know )

By: Dustin Senos

Dustin Senos — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:19:58 +0000

Man live docs is such a bumber. I made a little site to search it as well as a few other sites. Check it out:

http://noirgle.com

By: Philippe

Philippe — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 15:38:51 +0000

I’ve got a good tip too:
- use: http://start.gotapi.com/
- with Firefox and this AdBlock filter: http://livedocs.adobe.com/*.js

And enjoy fast doc browsing