Re: Windows HTML Help

[chuck c <bubbasnmp () gmail com>]

https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/3213
Wow - quite the change.



On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 6:15 PM Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org> wrote:

> 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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