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>The Engineering group at our company is requesting that we convert our
>existing Win Help Online Help (Windows 95 and NT platforms) to an HTML
>Help format. Has anyone done this before? If so, what has been your
>experience? What are the drawbacks? Benefits? Are there issues with any
>particular browser an end user maybe using?
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FWIW, I use Wextech Helpsite 1.5 for this very purpose. It does a
reasonable first pass, but you will need to use a decent HTML editor to
clean up the results. For example, it formats numbered and bulletted lists
absolutely (rather than use <li> tags).
The HTML Help interface can be either an ActiveX control or a Java applet
(Microsoft include the applet in the latest version of the HTML Help
Workshop -- see http://www.microsoft.com/workshop/author/). The Helpsite
templates use the ActiveX control by default and you'll need to edit them to
use the Java applet.
HTH,
Geoff Lane
geoff -at- gjctech -dot- force9 -dot- net
