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Yeah, I can see why you might use WebHelp for both, you're just opening up an HTML file after all, but I think you can't use WebHelp for non-Web applications. Or at least that's how it used to be.
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From: Slager Timothy J [mailto:Timothy -dot- Slager -at- dematic -dot- com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 2:42 PM
To: Robart, Kay; Julie Stickler; techwr-l
Subject: RE: Hosted Help - server specs?
We now have nearly all web applications, but we used webhelp for non-Web applications and preferred it to CHMs for a number of reasons.
I think the main difference is that it consists of multiple HTM files viewed in a standard browser, rather than a single compiled file. At first I liked the simplicity of a single file but then found a single folder just as easy to manage.
>Generally speaking, CHM files are designed specifically for non-Web applications and WebHelp files for Web applications.
>Just in case no one mentioned that.
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