Re: Authoring application Help
Re: Authoring application Help
- Subject: Re: Authoring application Help
- From: Matt Neuburg <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:48:00 -0800
- Thread-topic: Authoring application Help
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 09:41:05 -0800 (PST), "Paul J. Lucas"
<email@hidden> said:
>I've read the various Apple documentation on writing HTML help pages so Help
>Viewer can display them. Yet when I look at some examples of Apple's own help
>files (pick any application in /Applications), non-standard "help" URLs are
>used, e.g.:
>
> <a href="help:anchor='autoabt001' bookID='AutoMator Help'">Blah</a>
>
>I can understand their use if you want to refer to a *different* help
>book than your own, but why use them internally?
Because what you know is the name of an anchor, not the relative URL of a
document. But if that is not the case, then don't use anchors. I don't.
>And, even if you do
>use them in lieu of "normal" URLs, how can you test your help book?
>(Ideally, testing using Safari would be nice.)
Right, but if you used help anchors you will have to test in Help Viewer. m.
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