HTML Help versus WebHelp

[CindyVance]

we are looking into the differences between HTML Help and WebHelp in RoboHelp

Can you search for a topic in the Help content in WebHelp as you can with HTML Help?

Thanks,

Cindy

[RoboWizard]

Hi Cindy

Indeed WebHelp does have a search mechanism. The main differences are this:

In HTML Help you are working with a single compiled file. If your project has 200 topics, you still have a single file with a CHM file extension that has all 200 topics inside.

In WebHelp, it's uncompiled. So you have 200 individual topic files (and many other constituent files) that live in a file system. Typically on a server.

Cheers... Rick

[Peter Grainge]

Item 33 at http://www.grainge.org/pages/snippets/snippets.htm#miscellaneous may help you with which format to use.

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