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Subject:Re: HTML Help and the Browser From:"William G. Meisheid" <wgm -at- SAGELINE -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 12 Oct 1998 08:24:56 -0400
|Hello. My group is looking into moving to HTML help (java based, not
|Active X) to be delivered from within an Oracle-based application. The
|problem is that our customers do not all have their web browsers located
|in the same place and so the application's call to the browser would
|cause problems. We cannot have the application hanging up, or require
|the customer to do extra configuration or preference setting.
If you are calling the HTML help by using a url the location of the browser
should be irrelevant since the installation of the browser within Windows
associates it with the HTML/HTM extensions. Just calling a specific file will
launch the browser.
I hope that helps.
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William Meisheid "Thoughts still and always in progress"
WUGNET/Help Authoring Forum Sysop & Microsoft MVP
Certified Baltimore/Washington area RoboHELP Training
Sageline Publishing 410.465.2040 Fax: 410.465.1812 http://www.sageline.com wgm -at- sageline -dot- com
