With the Viewer program, wouldn't it be neat to have a manual that you could browse on the empeg? Say you split it up into sections, then put all the files in /manual.... then you could use Viewer and browse all the manual pages.

Personally, I think that would kick ass.... would anyone be willing to make simple manual files maybe from the FAQ or something?

How about a front-panel html viewer, for local and remote static html files?

-ml

Do they have any libraries for parsing HTML files? That doesn't sound like anything too fun to write

put the faq on the viewer

You're twisted, Justin. I like that.

Well, basic text-only frameless HTML is downright trivial to parse, and tags that are not understood or not implemented can just be ignored. Not that hard to do.

Cheers

Why not just convert it to a text only format, if that's what's going to be displayed anyway? Would anyone be willing to do this, make a couple simple text files and just cut and paste info from the manual/FAQ?

A big reason for not doing that would be to keep the hyperlinks in place in the html documents.
[a major ease of use feature that would permit the FAQ to be made available on the player].

A simple html type viewer would be cool and as mlord pointed ut, if you ignore tags you don't know how to parse it should still work ok with most html files.

And everyone will have plenty of time to read the rest of the FAQ on the empeg or any other computer with a screen from their hospital beds...

So, the drive replacement goes like.... Oh! Just nearly hit that raccoon. Ok, now jumper for... Hey! Watch where you're driving! Interesting, so I can press 2 a couple of times or hold 2 and... Sheeeeet!

Bruno

That's the general idea....

I think mainly it's just another "oh look at how cool this is" type feature.... I mean a lot of the hijack stuff is based upon this idea... it's not like you need to play breakout while you're driving around, but it's damn cool to say, oh yeah, by the way, check this crap out, it's got breakout!

>oh look at how cool this is" type feature....
>I mean a lot of the hijack stuff is based upon this idea..

No, all of the Hijack stuff is there to solve a problem or add useful functionality. (the breakout game is in the latter category -- it's the easiest way to get the Hijack version number after booting).

-ml