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Subject:Re: SQL-based Help From:David Hailey <dhailey -at- ENGLISH -dot- USU -dot- EDU> Date:Fri, 11 Dec 1998 12:09:22 -0700
I think I'll never have the opportunity to do this, or I would keep it under
my hat. In all of the discussions of help that I have seen, people
thoroughly dislike HTML-based help, and in recent discussions have had
similarly negative comments about Java-based help.
I work daily in an SQL driven environment, and it works beautifully. I
could invision a database/forms combination that would make creating these
docs much simpler than even RoboHelp, and would produce true-cross-platform
compatability.
Obviously, there is a small server problem--they are all pretty expensive I
think. But apart from that. . . ?
