HTML Help versus "old Winhelp"

[Pierre de la Verre]

Hello,

I'm making online-help (with text and hyperlinked graphics, but without macros, movies, trainig cards, ....); and now I wonder if there is a "real good" reason to change from "old Winhelp (Microsoft Help Workshop)" to "HTML Help Workshop" ?

After playing around with HTML Help I don't see "incredible advantages" of HTML Help.

Pierre

 

[Cliff Middleton]

Hi Pierre,

We switched to HTML help primarily to make it easier for anyone in our group to create and edit topics. Also, htm's are easier and more versatile than winhelp when it comes to graphics files. We found the "HTML Help Workshop" a bit clumsy and now use the "FAR" compiler (http://www.helpware.net/FAR/index.html), at least initially.

Hello,

I'm making online-help (with text and hyperlinked graphics, but without

macros, movies, trainig cards, ....); and now I wonder if

there is a "real good" reason to change from "old Winhelp (Microsoft Help

Workshop)" to "HTML Help Workshop" ?