#8724 NORM 8.2.0 (: Help instructions fail when following external links

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#8724: Help instructions fail when following external links
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 Reporter:  mchua          |         Owner:  isforinsects        
     Type:  defect         |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  normal         |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  help-activity  |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:                 |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                      
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 Because the Help Activity text pulls directly from the online FLOSSmanuals
 book, links to external websites are still live. Some of the instructions
 involve clicking on those links and performing actions in your browser,
 and the natural inclination is for people to click the link in Help and
 follow instructions as if Help were a web browser (which it sort of is).
 However, Help is modified enough that some instructions that would work in
 Browse do not work in Help.

 Here is an example.

 |Test case|

  1. Connect to the internet.
  1. Start the Help Activity.
  1. Go to the chapter on installing Activities and follow the directions
 exactly - click on the link to go to the
 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Activities page. Since you're online and Help
 Activity is a (modified) browser, the link will work, you'll see the page,
 hurrah.
  1. Now (still following the Help Activity directions) click on a .xo file
 to try installing an Activity.
  1. Nothing happens. Why does nothing happen? Didn't I follow the
 instructions? Isn't this a web browser? I'm online, I connected to the
 right page and everything... (insert more new-user confusion here)

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8724>
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