Re: "help" URLs
Re: "help" URLs
- Subject: Re: "help" URLs
- From: Finlay Dobbie <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 23:19:17 +0100
On Friday, August 3, 2001, at 09:43 pm, Jessica Kahn wrote:
If a browser isn't handling help: URLs properly, it's that individual
browser's bug. Help Viewer registers on all Mac OS X systems as the
default handler for URLs with the "help" scheme, and so a well-behaved
browser should be able to ship them off to Help Viewer via any of the
system-supplied mechanisms for doing so (i.e. LaunchServices,
InternetConfig, etc.).
Perhaps the real problem here is that we're forced to use a different
browser than the Help Viewer for browsing Help because of the appalling
performance of Help Viewer. It's funny, on Classic MacOS people were
occasionally using Help Viewer as a lightweight fast-launching browser
to view other pages, now we're forced to use other "more bloated"
browsers since they're just faster. Oh well, I can only hope that it
gets better in future release.
-- Finlay