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Subject:RE: HTML v .hlp [RE: 28.8 Modem Users] From:bryan -dot- westbrook -at- amd -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 5 Jan 2001 13:36:13 -0600
Do the majority of people out there multitask or not?
HTML help is fast becoming a pet peeve of mine. I always multitask, and
I've usually got a browser open (at the office it's to check the output of
the hand-coded pages I'm writing).
Several times lately I have clicked on the help menu of an application (some
not even Internet-related applications) to find my browser suddenly leaving
what I was doing and opening HTML help.
I certainly don't want to create documentation that is going to anger
readers as soon as it opens.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Hanson [SMTP:PHanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 1:08 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: HTML v .hlp [RE: 28.8 Modem Users]
>
> vendor of the software I use to create Help files. The vendor has decided
> that HTML is the future of Help and, because of that, is not making
> changes
> to their .hlp file interface. A technical support person wrote to me today
>
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