RE: (was WinHelp on Vista - was a useful link) Now, what if...

["sbuckley" <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com>]

I apologize for creating the storm that I did with my response. I really
just wanted to provide a link to helpful information.  Now, maybe not.

I liked the response below because it asked for something specific.  The
problem is we, the technical communication industry, need to start providing
the recommendations for what's needed and make them heard.  How?  I'm not
quite sure.  Currently, and I know this from experience, if a tech writer
says to a large company "this is what we need for an authoring tool and how
to deliver the information in Help" at best we are not listened to or at
least not completely.  Big companies can, sometimes have to, and do ignore
us.

What about the World Wide Web consortium?  They have standards on Web sites
and how to deliver them for accessibility and localization.  There's also
standards on making software fit these standards or similar standards.  

What if there were WWW3 standards on how to create and deliver Help for
software?  Presently I can't find such standards.  Maybe I'm out of the loop
and missed something on their site.  If so, please provide information.

If not, we need to provide readability and other Help oriented usability
information to WWW consortium to create standards for Help.  Then the large
companies will have the information they consider official enough to create
the tools we need to do our jobs.


-----Original Message-----
From: techwr-l-bounces+sbuckley=onlinewriter -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
[mailto:techwr-l-bounces+sbuckley=onlinewriter -dot- com -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com] On
Behalf Of Dan Goldstein
Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 6:25 AM
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: WinHelp on Vista - a useful link

Let's say we're looking for:
- The functionality and usability of WinHelp (at a minimum!)
- Stability, security, and accessibility over networks
- Future feature development and owner support
What's recommended?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Char James-Tanny
> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 9:14 AM
> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: WinHelp on Vista - a useful link
> 
> > So why the push to convert to something flawed and static? If you're
> > going to invest in a major Help system conversion, why not upgrade
> > to...?
> 
> Don't think of it as a "push to HTML Help"...think of it as "get away
> from WinHelp". Once Microsoft deprecated WinHelp and held Vista Help
> back, the only Windows Help format that they could suggest is HTML
> Help.
> 
> As always, folks can use any Help format for their output, many of
> which will work locally on Windows.
> 

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