Re: QUESTION: Moving from WinHelp to HTML Help

["Tamminga, Ernie" <et -at- DSC -dot- COM>]

You can ship either the compiled .chm file, or the entire swarm of html
files.

The latter course probably only makes sense if you anticipate a need for
being able easily to tweak one single topic (in this new world, read:
single html file) more or less in real-time, on your customer's server,
without having to recompile and re-ship the complete .chm file.

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Ernie Tamminga
Director, InfoEngineering
Digital Sound Corporation
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Opinions expressed are my own, and not necessarily those of Digital
Sound Corporation

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  Kathryn Marshall [SMTP:kmarshall -at- MODACAD -dot- COM]
>Sent:  Monday, November 03, 1997 5:19 PM
>To:    TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject:       Re: QUESTION: Moving from WinHelp to HTML Help
>
><<SNIP>>
>I would imagine that you don't ship the individual help files (html)
>pages -- just the compiled ".chm" file -- the way you would send a .hlp
>file to a user not the actual source documents. Again, I can't say for
>sure because I just opened the box today.
>
>I'm interested in hearing more on this subject.
>
>-Kathryn
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Larry Weber [SMTP:larry_weber -at- HOTMAIL -dot- COM]
>> Sent: Monday, November 03, 1997 5:02 PM
>> To:   TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>> Subject:      QUESTION: Moving from WinHelp to HTML Help
>>
>> This is a question for those intrepid souls out there diving into the
>> HTML Help fray and those planning such a move:
>>
>> HOW and WHY are you implementing HTML Help at this time? From what I
>> understand, you presently can only develop HTML Help for one of the
>> two
>> major browsers. Are you shipping a browser? Next, where do the HTML
>> files reside? Do they reside on a single server that your users access
>> via the internet, or do you actually ship the HTML files and store
>> them
>> on the user's machines?
>>
>> If the HTML files reside on an internet server, have you gotten
>> feedback
>> concerning the response time to access the HTML file vs. response time
>> to access a local WinHelp file? How does this architecture handle
>> context-sensitive Help? Also, have you collected any data about the
>> types of information that users access (i.e., have you made any
>> conclusions about what users actually USE in the online doc)?
>>
>> Finally, is it just me, or does anyone else get the feeling that this
>> HTML Help thing is (presently) more trendy than actually feasible?
>>
>> Larry Weber
>> larry_weber -at- hotmail -dot- com
>>
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