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I hate viewing documentation in a browser, too many distractions. Everyone should distribute docs in a dockset format (https://kapeli.com/docsets).

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That's a good opportunity to mention Zeal, an open source Dash alternative: https://github.com/zealdocs/zeal

Huh, looks like a modern-day WinHelp. That looks like it's moving in the wrong direction though. I doubt many people want a big completely offline doc blob in this day and age.

In my experience, local copies load appreciably faster and more consistently than CDN-ed, Google Analytics-ed hosted copies

I'm beyond livid that Firefox Developer Edition stopped allowing me to paste "jar:" protocol URLs even though it still loads the existing ones I bookmarked just fine

Actually, I wish more projects had installable documentation. Obviously, I don't want WinHelp, but man pages, HTML, and PDFs easily installed to a discoverable place, yes please.

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