FW: HTML & Browsers

["Moore, Tracey" <TMoore -at- PARKERVISION -dot- COM>]

I wrote HTMLhelp and WebHelp with my last employer, and I write HTMLhelp
with my current employer. The answers to your questions depend upon how
you plan to deliver your application.

At my last job, our applications were java-based and ran in a browser.
If your applications are browser-based, and you cannot control what
browser your client uses, go with WebHelp. WebHelp is pretty-much
cross-platform. One hitch: your client's browser must be java-enabled.
Most are, but if any of your clients have old browsers, this could be a
problem. If you can be sure they will use IE 4 or higher, RoboHTML has a
lot more bells & whistles. (WebHelp is generated from RoboHelp, not
RoboHTML.)

It sounds as if your applications are not browser-based. At my current
job, we deliver HTMLhelp this way. It is widely believed that you must
view HTMLhelp in a browser, but this is not always true. You must use a
browser if you're viewing a help file that resides on a server (intranet
or internet) and not locally.

To view HTMLhelp from a desktop application, your client must have the
.ocx and .dll files listed in the RoboHTML user guide (in addition to
the .chm file, which is the help file itself). We include a full install
of IE 4.0 with our application to simplify things. This does not require
our clients to use IE, it simply resides on their system. (Beware of the
Active Desktop settings, I'd advise clients against installing this part
of IE 4.0--super pain!) If your clients are using Win98 or NT 5.0, I
believe they're all set and don't require anything.

I don't know if you can view WebHelp without a browser.  Anyone?

If you're interested in seeing an example HTMLhelp and WebHelp
distribution over the internet, check out my last employers web site.
(Note: When you click on the IE 4.0 help sample, you'll get only half of
the help file. . .it's missing its table of contents, and now that I
don't work there anymore, no one has bothered to fix it! But it still
shows how the file opens from a web site.)

Take a look at the source code to see how to deliver the systems within
html.

Here's the URL:

www.appliedmapping.com/html/prodserv/techdocs.htm

Hope this helps!

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