Apple releases HTML Help Kit

[Mike Stockman <stockman -at- JAGUNET -dot- COM>]

For those who do cross-platform work, Apple has (finally) released an SDK
for developing online help for the HTML help engine built into MacOS 8.5
and higher.

The documentation included says that you can author the content in any
application that supports HTML 3.2, and then run the Apple-specific tools
on it to index and package it.

(Cool, kind-o-geeky feature: you can call AppleScripts from inside the
HTML help. Tell the user how to do something, or just click the "Do It
For Me" button...)

Not only that, but they also provide a surprising upgrade -- GuideMaker
2.0 is included in the package, for those who want to use AppleGuide
active assistance as well as the HTML-based stuff.

Anyway, this should prove much more convenient for those of us who have a
foot in each camp (MacOS, Windows, UNIX... well, perhaps "foot" was the
wrong metaphor).

Check out:

ftp://ftp.apple.com/developer/Development_Kits/Apple_Help_1.2_SDK_1.0.sit.h
qx

for the download, or see:

http://developer.apple.com/sdk/index.html

for a link to the download and a paragraph of info.

Hope this is useful,
----->Mike

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