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Subject:RE: Guide to writing online help for web app From:"Cascio, Justin" <Justin_Cascio -at- tvratings -dot- com> To:"'Joan Melgaard'" <joan -at- mirrorworlds -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 28 Dec 1999 11:02:01 -0500
I don't know where to direct you for standards or guidelines, but we handles
context sensitive help by keeping a Help hyperlink on every page, and each
page's link goes to the appropriate WebHelp HTML file.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joan Melgaard [mailto:joan -at- mirrorworlds -dot- com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 1999 10:25 AM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Guide to writing online help for web app
Also, how do you handle context sensitive help in an application that
runs in a browser?