On 10 Feb 2008, at 15:16, Dennis Amrouche wrote:
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(And I guess its even faster for the authors to record a screencast on certain issues rather than writing about them)
I would guess that you guess incorrectly! (Based on my attempts at (non-TextMate) screencasts. It's harder than you might imagine!)
Video-Tutorials wont substitute proper documentation, but they could explain quite well and straight forward the handling of ie. software.
Whats the struggle to record snippets of 4min of free speach and flowing action with the software you like the most?
Well, try it for yourself :) Coming up with good stuff to show and actually recording it is much much harder than it looks.
Also, even if we did 100+ new screencasts, what is the chance of us recording one showing exactly the stuff you needed (like the doctype snippet, which I actually think is featured in at least one screencast)?
Not to mistake the above for me not wanting more screencast, I love them, but just don’t underrestimate the effort that goes into them, and also, recording dozens of 4 minute “trivial” screencasts will IMO devalue the concept.