Re: Windows HTML Help

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads

no longer works, and the Chocolatey package now downloads from archive.org:

https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/html-help-workshop#files

I'll take a look at switching the Windows installers over to plain HTML.

On 5/26/21 2:30 PM, Gerald Combs wrote:
> I think the only advantage that HTML Help offers at this point is the ability to search for keywords. It otherwise adds a 
> build requirement which results in shipping a different help format on Windows, and the HTML Help Viewer seems to behave 
> worse as time goes on. I'd be OK with switching to plain HTML.
>
>
> On 5/26/21 12:28 PM, Graham Bloice wrote:
> > Personally I prefer help to be local and not require internet access, and I despise those local help abominations that 
> > spew hundreds of html files into the filesystem.
> >
> > Not sure what's up with the links, maybe we need to make them pass off to the system default browser rather than trying 
> > to render them in the HTML help browser.
> >
> > On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 18:02, chuck c <bubbasnmp () gmail com <mailto:bubbasnmp () gmail com>> wrote:
> >
> >     https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200701/msg00396.html 
> > <https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200701/msg00396.html>
> >
> >     "Pressing the help button will:
> >     - on Win32 only: if available, open the Windows Help viewer with locally installed user-guide.chm file - and if that fails ... 
> > - on all systems: start a web browser and open the corresponding wireshark.org <http://wireshark.org> online page"
> >
> >     Clicking links in Windows HTML Help viewer is painful (and a little unnerving) with script errors.
> >
> >     Is it time to sunset and have Windows help act like non-Windows platforms?
> >     Or maybe add a step to the CHM build process that makes the links non-clickable so the user would need to 
> > copy/paste into a browser?
> >
> >     chuckc
> >
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