Microsoft Corporation
1997
Microsoft® HTML Help is designed to display online documentation. The audience for HTML Help is authors who create online help for a software program, or who are creating a multimedia title or a site on the World Wide Web.
HTML Help consists of the following components:
- The HTML Help ActiveX® control, which provides the navigational user interface (contents, index, and Associative links) and some additional functionality (initial splash window, version dialog boxes, and more).
- The Layout Engine, such as Microsoft® Internet Explorer version 3.0 or later, or any browser that supports ActiveX Documents.
- The HTML Help Viewer, which displays HTML in a customized, resizable viewer, independent of the user's browser.
- Compressed HTML, which combines all sources (HTML, ActiveX® Controls, ActiveX Scripting, Java applets, graphics, multimedia, full-text search indexes, keywords, and more) and compresses them into a single file.
- Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, an authoring kit for HTML Help that contains all the tools necessary for creating and maintaining an HTML Help project.
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