>All the talk about the browser market is a red herring. Internet Explorer
>was never a product separate from Windows. It was a part of the OS utility
>package called PLUS!. In Win98, it was integrated into the OS becauseit was
>the tool for viewing the help files, among other things.
Sure, but why did Microsoft switch to HTML help? I did a document as a
Microsoft help file once and I still wish HTML had some of the features of
the Microsoft help system (pop-up windows for instance, which I found
very handy for a glossary; just click on the word for which you want a
definition and a little window pops up with the definition. The HTMl version
of this was an icky ActiveX applet that I never got to work right).
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Roger Ivie
rivie_at_teraglobal.com
Not speaking for TeraGlobal Communications Corporation
Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 10:09:39 BST