Microsoft Corporation
June 23, 1998
Microsoft® HTML Help is designed to display, and provide navigation for, online documentation. Authors can use HTML Help to create online help for a software program, or to create content for a multimedia title or a site on the World Wide Web. Developers can use it to build help files or hook up help to a program.
HTML Help consists of the following components:
- The HTML Help ActiveX® control, which provides navigation features (table of contents, index, related topics links, and initial splash window) for Web sites and additional features (Associative links, Keyword links, version dialog boxes, and more) for the HTML Help Viewer.
- The layout engine, such as Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0 or later, or any browser that supports ActiveX controls.
- The HTML Help Viewer, which help authors can use to display compiled HTML in a customized, resizable window, independent of the user's browser.
- Compressed HTML, which combines all sources (HTML, ActiveX controls, ActiveX Scripting, Java applets, graphics, full-text search indexes, keywords, and more) and compresses them into a single file.
- Microsoft HTML Help Workshop, help authoring software for HTML Help that contains a help compiler, WinHelp converter, and all the other tools necessary for creating and maintaining an HTML Help project.
- Pop-up windows, which enable help authors to create small windows for definitions or glossary terms that appear on top of a topic window.
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