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We can all hope that Macromedia, known for tools that create clean HTML, will kill off the terrible psuedo-WYSIWYG editing tools in Robohelp and implement something sensible. Until I first worked with Robohelp, I thought that nothing could screw up HTML as badly as FrontPage... but I was mistaken.
BTW, using Robohelp to open "clean" HTML files created in DreamWeaver automatically adds the "wonderful" Robohelp gunk to the code. Yuck!
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-techwr-l-129804 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
[mailto:bounce-techwr-l-129804 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of Suzanne
Chiles
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 1:50 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: RE: GoLive vs. Dreamweaver
I'm hoping now that Macromedia has purchased RoboHelp, they'll introduce a
built-in Dreamweaver interface for editing help files.
Suzanne
> I assume that the discussion has been about web stuff, but
> what about authoring WebHelp?
>
> I recently started using RoboHelp X4.1 to create WebHelp
> for our product that is used with multiple operating systems.
> One of the first things that I heard on the HATT mailing
> list was:
>
> "Of course, nobody uses the built-in WYSIWYG editor in
> RoboHelp. Everybody uses DreamWeaver or some other
> powerful HTML publishing tool instead."
