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Subject:Re: Why HTML Help? From:David Knopf <david -at- KNOPF -dot- COM> Date:Mon, 4 Jan 1999 09:00:08 -0800
Kathy Das Gupta wrote:
| The OLH application I am working on has 1 very basic reason for moving to
| HTMLHelp (actually, NetHelp). The application that it supports is
| moving to
| a Java GUI. Because the application will be platform-independent,
| naturally
| the Help should be.
Well, that may be true, but NetHelp is hardly platform-independent. It
requires a specific platform: a current version of Netscape Navigator. The
fact that NetHelp can be deployed on different operating systems does not
make it platform-independent. WinHelp can be deployed on UNIX (using
Bristol's HyperHelp) and on Macintosh (using Altura's QuickHelp), but I
don't think that means WinHelp is platform-independent, either.
