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Re: I'm sticking with WinHelp (was Re: WinHelp on Vista - a usefullink)

Subject: Re: I'm sticking with WinHelp (was Re: WinHelp on Vista - a usefullink)
From: "Bill Swallow" <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: sbuckley <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:38:54 -0400

As I said, the W3C's guidelines are appropriate for any HTML-based
content. If you're using CHM, Microsoft has standards for its
implementation. If JavaHelp, Sun has standards for its implementation.
Same for OracleHelp, WebWorks Help, WebHelp, etc. Further, there are
design considerations that span formats that are covered in many
usability books and so forth.

If you're looking for one entity to tie it all together, I don't know
of one. If you want one, perhaps I found a market niche. ;-)

On 9/21/06, sbuckley <sbuckley -at- onlinewriter -dot- com> wrote:

What I hear over and over again is that there are many help formats to chose
from. What are the basic standards these formats are based on? For
example, what are the standards set by someone like WWW3 who listens to the
technical communication industry and provides standards adopted by big
companies? What are the standards that have some basis in scientific
research on readability and overall use of online documentation?

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Re: I'm sticking with WinHelp (was Re: WinHelp on Vista - a useful link): From: Bill Swallow
RE: I'm sticking with WinHelp (was Re: WinHelp on Vista - a usefullink): From: sbuckley

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