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Subject:HTML context sensitive help From:Keith Jeremy Posner <posner -at- SODALIA -dot- IT> Date:Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:55:32 +0100
Hello all
I have a specific query related to online documentation. Searching the
archives under 'HTML', 'context senstitive', 'online documentation' has
provided some answers but my original query remains. It is this:
Is it possible to create context-sensitive online documentation using
HTML? I'm thinking of the user in the GUI application. This user doesn't
understand a task or a GUI screen element so s/he presses a 'Help'
button, or chooses 'Help' from a menu and an HTML-based window opens
automatically providing help on the task or GUI screen element which the
user didn't understand.
Does anyone have experience implementing this type of documentation?
Suggestions/advice will be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Keith
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Keith Posner posner -at- sodalia -dot- it
Technical Writer
