Choosing a Help Format

[David Spreadbury]

Fei Min,
Personally I think you are stabbing at windmills. It isn't all that difficult to decompile a CHM, make a change, and recompile. How many do?
I produce OracleHelp for Java from Frame source. It also produces HTML for the content. It is delivered as server based, but there is nothing to prevent someone changing the HTML. Haven't heard of anyone doing it.

Dave





On Friday, November 22, 2013 12:43 PM, Fei Min Lorente <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com> wrote:
 
Okay, that would explain why no one seems to be using Eclipse Help unless it's an Eclipse product. :-)

We're concerned about the OmniHelp files on the theory that if people can do something, someone will. That could be a completely unfounded concern, so I'm glad to hear opinions to the contrary.

Fei Min

-----Original Message-----
From: robert.lauriston at gmail.com [mailto:robert.lauriston at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:26 PM
To: Fei Min Lorente; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: Choosing a Help Format

I agree with Jeremy, standalone EclipseHelp is a huge and complicated distributable. It's not a practical format. I'm not sure if there's a use case where it would make sense.

Why would users mess with your help files?

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Fei Min Lorente <FeiMin.Lorente at onsemi.com> wrote:
> And we weren't worried about OmniHelp losing files; we are worried about users going in and messing with them. Is there any way to lock them down?
>
> We're very curious about using standalone Eclipse Help; has anyone here used it for a non-Eclipse-based product? If not, I'll take this question to the eclipse_tw group.
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