Re: Jscript complete documentation

by "Srinivasan Ramakrishnan" <srinivar(at)md3.vsnl.net.in>

Date:	Thu, 4 Jan 2001 14:58:04 +0530
To:	=?iso-8859-1?Q?Mikael_Bystr=F6m?= <sunergy(at)mac.com>, <hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
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: >BTW, HTML documentation would mean that Microsoft's CHM file format
wouldn't
: >be put to use!! Anyway they wouldn't be able to provide the indexing and
: >search facilities would they?
:  Yes, they would. If Macromedia can in their help system, then why can't
: MS?

Ahh!!! But that requires Java, and MS could use ActiveX, and that's what
they do with the CHM. Now there is also another possible reason, having
multiple HTML files on a FAT16 system wastes space, so a single file is
certainly smaller.

Anyway it is clear that MS have their reasons! We can't change that can we?

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