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Subject:Re: HTML Help and the Browser From:Geoff Lane <geoff -at- GJCTECH -dot- FORCE9 -dot- NET> Date:Mon, 12 Oct 1998 10:59:06 +0100
Hi Steve,
You're not talking nonsense -- however, HTML Help Workshop does provide a
Java applet that Microsoft claims will work with any Java-enabled browser.
Unfortunately, I can't get it to work with Navigator 4 or Netscape
Communicator (although it does work with Navigator 3, and IE3.02 and above).
Please search the HTML Help Workshop 1.1 help for "Java applet". This tells
you how to embed the applet and how to deploy the result.
A thread on Winhlp-l is currently examining this issue. You can search the
winhlp-l archives at http://www.documentation.com -- search for "HTML Help
for non-IE users".
HTH,
Geoff Lane
Cornwall, UK
geoff -at- gjctech -dot- force9 -dot- net
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Riley <SRILEY -at- BCT-SYSTEMS -dot- CO -dot- UK>
>This is the big question of the moment, the
>answer is currently no (for plain HTML help at
>least). A cut down HTML help viewer has been
>promised for some time but has not yet appeared.
>The only way to be sure your viewers see your
>HTML help in its full glory is to install
>Internet Explorer (or state it as a prerequisite).
>The consolation prize is that IE need not be the
>default browser.
>
>Steve
>
>Note: I don't know about a Java solution, if I'm
>talking nonsense, someone please point it out.
