On 7 Jul 2007 at 17:03, shirling & neueweise wrote:

[quoting me:] 
> >Well, Microsoft's HTML Help has to be coded for a certain browser, as
> >it runs using an embedded IE component for rendering. I don't know
> >what it does on Mac. And the files are not HTML, but an encoded form
> >or HTML that is nonstandard and specific to MS's proprietary CHM
> >files.
> 
> yes but you can set up scripts in html programmes to strip / replace
> the shit MS coding.

Er, how? CHM files are binary encoded.

> and if you set up your style names in MS word
> exactly as in the CSS and you avoid most of the coding problems, i do
> this with a colleague all the time.   there are some small things that
> have to be verified with each document, but about 75% of the problems
> of MS coding can be easily bypassed.   it is admittedly not perfect,
> but any professional html designer can easily sort out many of the
> remaining recurrent problems stemming from working in MS word.

I think you're not talking about MS's HTML Help format at all, but 
HTML produced by MS products -- not the same thing at all.

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David W. Fenton                    http://dfenton.com
David Fenton Associates       http://dfenton.com/DFA/

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