On 2001-08-07 18:09, "C.W. Otto Sohn" <oky_at_avalon.net> wrote:
> The problem is not that Apple "updated" its "Knowledge Base", the problem
> is that TIL is retired altogether. The nice thing about TIL was that you
> had STATIC URLs fo specific articles which you could just include on your
> website (just like the FAQs do). Now with Knowledge Base and the Knowledge
> Archive you can only search and NOT BROWSE, retrieving only a fraction of
> the articles that were available on TIL. And: the whole thing (Knowledge
> Base) returns dynamic URLs.
[...]
> Honestly, with the static URL based TIL you'd just make a link on your
> website that points EXACTLY at the "nxxxxx" article that answers that
> specific question.
Which is the reason the "Newton Info Library" will not be coming back when
(if) the Newted Community server ever gets back up.
Unless Apple see the error of their ways and re-enable linking directly to
TIL/KB articles once again.
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