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List:       wireshark-dev
Subject:    Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help
From:       Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark ! org>
Date:       2021-06-01 23:14:44
Message-ID: e6771755-df2b-f82e-a55c-8bd09348c5b9 () wireshark ! org
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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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> > Graham Bloice
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