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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Windows HTML Help

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 14:30:12 -0700
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@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:bubbasnmp@xxxxxxxxx>> 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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