Opening HTML help in Chrome

[Guest]

I was told by Adope that RH9-generated HTML help is fully compatible with Google's Chrome browser, yet people internally are not able to open my latest help files in Chrome. Anyone had problems with Chrome that they were able to fix?

Thanks,

Jim

[Peter Grainge · Accepted solution]

As long as you mean webhelp when you say HTML Help, it is compatible with Chrome. The issue is that it will only work in Chrome provided it is on a webserver rather than being installed on a local drive. Webhelp is intended to be on a webserver so that is not unreasonable.

You can make webhelp work locally in a way that may be acceptable internally. That will be a matter for your IT people to rule on. See Snippets on my site. Obviously as you are by-passing what Google believes is security protection, it is at your own risk.

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See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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[Guest]

Thanks, Peter.That is probably the problem. When I switched to RH9, I had people test a version I put on a local drive.

And yes, I do mean WebHelp.

Thanks again,

Jim

[Jeff_Coatsworth]

This is a .chm file, right? Probably depends where it's located. You may have to have Chrome users set their shortcuts to launch Chrome with the "-allow local file access" command line turned on (same as with WebHelp). Chrome did a "security" upgrade last year that knocked out all local html pages.

[Guest]

Jeff, sorry I wasn't clearer. It is a WebHelpOnline file, not .chm. Peter provided an answer that is probably right. I need to test it on a web server.