PS has a poor help system

Hi,
Since years, most mainstream applications have implemented contextual help. For every single little shareware or big commercial program I wrote, I have put a Help button in every dialog box displayed by the program. Clicking on this button or hitting F1 would bring the user directly to the relevant help page. This basic behavior of an application's help system has been the rule for years.
Not in PS . F1 has no effect in dialog boxes, not even in the Preferences dialog box.
For a top level application like PS, I find this very disappointing.

John Joslin wrote:
Adobe has decided to go a different way to enable live updating and commenting.
It has its points but personally I hate it.
Me too. I'd like to have instant feedback when I need help. It's far to be the case.
Cheers.

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