best web help add-on for FrameMaker 10?

Carol J. Elkins celkins at awrittenword.com
Mon Feb 11 09:37:34 PST 2013


Matt, yes I am using RH's Multiscreen output. I'm annoyed at the 
differences in the out-of-box options for the various device outputs. 
There doesn't appear to be a unified "set" that retains the same 
color scheme or other skin characteristics. But my biggest whine is 
that RH10 treats the device outputs as separate entities with a 
separate folder for each output device. There is a separate index.htm 
file for each output device. And within each device folder, the 
entire set of templates for each device is repeated.  For example, 
here is a simplified folder structure to illustrate:
!ISSL!
--Multiscreen_HTML5
----|android_galaxy_tab
------|index.html plus my project files
------|template
---------|Android_Phone_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
--------|-Desktop_Knowledge
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|iPad_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|iPhone_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|Kindle_Fire_Layout
------------|all PNG files for the layout
---------|resources
---------|scripts
------|whxdata
----|android_phone
------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
----|desktop
------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
----|ipad
-------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
---|iphone
------|index.html plus my project files and the other folders as listed above
----|kindle_fire

I don't understand why the redundancy is necessary. So what I'd like 
to know is whether or not WWP's output contains this redundancy or 
whether they build all of this into one separate HTML5 and one 
separate css. It seems to me that as the device market expands and 
new devices are added, RH will be limited by what it is currently 
configured for. What I see in WWP suggests that their coding will be 
truly "responsive" and flexible regardless of the device that 
displays the output. If I'm wrong here about either product, let me 
know. That's what I'm trying to determine.

Carol

At 09:38 AM 2/11/2013, you wrote:
>@Carol, are you using RH's HTML5 SSL, called Multiscreen?
>
>Although you can still create SSL's per device, using Mulitscreen as 
>your SSL produces only one set of HTML files, with a single CSS3 to 
>do exactly what you mentioned in your post.




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