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Re: Best tool for Online Help in a web-based product
Subject:Re: Best tool for Online Help in a web-based product From:Bill Swallow <swallow -at- USERTECH -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 11 Aug 1998 10:44:09 -0400
If you plan on using HTML Help be warned that every end user MUST have Internet Explorer installed on their PC. Thank Billy Gates for that one!
I think your best bet is to use good ol' HTML... you can program a call to a new browser window within your application for viewing the Help. Also, you can try to use a small segment of the application as a text field for populating with context-sensitive content when needed.
Your programmers/Web authors should have no to lottle trouble in doing these things.
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