At 07:19 AM 7/28/2008, dhbailey wrote: >But that would demand that the help-file staff actually >check out the help files in all the most common browser >(anybody who's done any reading on web-site design knows >that's a must!) to make sure they display adequately in all >of them. That would entail absolutely perfect html code >since different browsers are forgiving in different ways of >coding errors, and is just much harder than what MM has >chosen to do: force it to open in IE, make sure it displays >properly in IE and then tell people who complain when it >doesn't quite work right in Opera or FireFox or whatever >that it's not their problem.
This isn't quite accurate. First of all, writing "absolutely perfect", standards compliant HTML is a guaranteed way to have your pages display differently in different browsers, because browsers disagree on how to render such HTML.
Second, Makemusic isn't writing all this HTML themselves. They're using a professional package that creates the HTML files out of some other kind of input. So they're not directly responsible for making sure that the HTML renders the same across different browsers.
Third, I think the issue of not opening by default in your default browser is fixed in 2009 for Mac, meaning it's now Windows only. This means that (a) MM does intend to fix this behavior, and (b) it's got something to do with the way Finale calls the help file, rather than anything in the HTML itself.
I still don't understand why this issue has proven to be so intractable for them, or why they were able to fix it on Mac but not Windows. And I agree that they should try to get it right on Windows as well.
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