Re: [docbook-apps] Ideas for GSoC 2011

[Denis Bradford <denis.bradford@verizon.net>]

I second the motion, but maybe there's not a huge hurry. My 2₵:

Help 3 (official name: Microsoft Help Viewer) is currently used only in 
Visual Studio (and MSDN, in some form) -- MS does not yet consider it a 
general purpose replacement for HTML Help.

Help 3 design is still a moving target. The original design was 
minimalist in the extreme - no keyword index or search, I think. After a 
lot of complaints from the user community, the MS Help 3 team recently 
added many new features (in the latest Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack).

That said, Help 3 seems likely to eventually take hold. And since the 
outputs will be mostly straight XHTML, maybe it's not too risky to get 
started on the DocBook stylesheets.

Cheers,
Denis

On 02/10/2011 06:34 AM, Speights, Scott wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I was checking out the GSoC 2011 Wiki page for upcoming developmentsand
> I hadanidea. I think it would also be useful if DB could generate MS
> Help 3 Help…Anyone interested in that one.
>
> Greetings,
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> Scott
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