Re: CHMs, DFDs, and TGIF

[Tony Chung <tonyc -at- tonychung -dot- ca>]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Combs, Richard
<richard -dot- combs -at- polycom -dot- com>wrote:

> Ed wrote:
>
> > And if people are still using CHM files, which are what, over 10 years
> old
>
> Um, yeah, people working in Windows are still using CHM files.
>
>
>
Plus, there's a great utility for Mac OSX called Chmox to read Windows CHMs.
I don't know what MS was thinking by deprecating the CHM in favour of
Windows HTML help. CHMs work great for small help systems. HTML Help, and to
some extent, Eclipse Help Center and AIR, are great for presenting
standalone web-based help, with an offline cost of about 20MB for a run-time
web server.


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