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Well, I miss the HATT-Matrix. I've used it many times over the years. It
was nice having somewhere I could plug in the features I need and see what
options I had for off-the-shelf tools.
If vendors didn't choose to participate, it was their loss.
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> It's a pretty comprehensive list and he provides enough basic
> information about each tool that I can usually figure out which I
> might want to evaluate for a particular project.
>
> It would be nice if there were a site with detailed, authoritative,
> impartial reviews, but who that's qualified to write those has time
> to?
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:16 AM, Bill Swallow <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > If by useful survey you mean list, then yes, that is indeed a list of
> tools.
> > ;)
> >
> > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com
> >
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Good riddance. It was paid advertising and consequently omitted some
> >> of the most popular tools. It was further misleading since it just
> >> repeated vendors' claims rather than testing whether the features
> >> actually worked.
> >>
> >> This is a useful survey of tools:
> >> http://www.indoition.com/online-help-authoring-tools-survey.htm
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Char James-Tanny <charjtf -at- gmail -dot- com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > Sorry, HAT Matrix is no longer online for a variety of reasons.
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