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Subject:Re: On-Line Help project--sorting it out From:Janice Karin <janice -at- INTERSYS -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 17 Aug 1998 11:06:22 -0400
At 09:59 AM 8/17/98 -0400, Brian, Flaherty wrote:
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> While WebHelp ports okay to the Windows platform, I
>do not know how it ports over to Macs, Unix systems and >mainframes.
It should work on any platform which has support for either IE4 or Netscape
4.
It just ships as HTML files and gifs.
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>Navigator cannot fully render HTML Help.
>
It can't see it at all -- it is totally ActiveX-based. In any case, HTML Help
will never actually be viewed in a browser -- It has a help viewer. This
viewer ships with IE4 and consists of a single Activex Control in IE3.02 plus
the "Help Viewer" downloadable from MS site.
I can't see Netscape supporting Microsoft HTML Help any time in the near
future. It would be a lot of work involving support for ActiveX, some type of
mechanism for unpacking the .chm files, and other assorted tasks.
