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Subject: Re: This is ridiculous!

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 05:46:21 10/19/99

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On October 19, 1999 at 03:29:12, Shep wrote:

>On October 18, 1999 at 22:53:41, Dave Gomboc wrote:
>
>
>>I don't think anyone is using HTML components in the engine.
>>
>>The purpose is to use it for online documentation.  It is becoming extremely
>>common to use HTML/SGML/XML formats for online docs.
>
>Still it should not be hard to seamlessly integrate this with whatever browser
>the user has installed. For example, I use WinCommander as file manager, and
>when I double-click any HTML file, it fires up the browser that is configured as
>system standard application for HTML, no matter if it's IE or Netscape.
>Hard to believe the Chessbase staff can't get such a simple thing working... :(
>
>---
>Shep

You don't need to have documentation show up in an a browser window to use the
part of the Windows API that supports HTML.  The average Joe might well have no
idea that a component originally developed for IE is even being used.

IMO this whole topic is much ado about nothing.

Dave



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