My take on this is that the TomTom FAT32 use is not necessarily
relevant. It depends. If you build CHM technology into the engine then
that would probably be relevant, but if you use Windows to display CHM
then it is probably not relevant. The Sword Project for Windows used CHM
for its help files. That is exactly what CHM was made for.
CHM is pretty simple. At its heart it uses HTML files and linked images
and such. The compiler takes a set of HTML files, linked files, and adds
indexing and search functionality. It is also possible to decompile CHM
and get the HTML and other files that were compiled into it. Of course
you want to be sure anything from that if you use it is PD, open source,
or otherwise legitimate to use. Note that decompiling could possibly be
considered reverse engineering so you need to consider terms of use and
the laws of whatever jurisdiction you are in. Those issues though are
not with Microsoft but with the party that compiled the CHM. In my opinion.
Jerry
On 6/20/2019 3:31 PM, Michael H wrote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help
CHM is not exactly opensource. Microsoft successfully sued TomTom for
using FAT32 formatting in it's GPS systems without paying any
royalties to Microsoft. That's the old (Gates, Balmer) Microsoft, but
still it's a proprietary technology by a company with a history of
using litigation on technologies just to shut people down.
I don't see Crosswire as being a target by microsoft, but sometimes
people with intent to harm license technology just to make it
something to rattle... I'd feel a lot more comfortable using a
known-opensource technology.
It would make production easy if it was supported.
On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:41 AM ref...@crosswire.org
<mailto:ref...@crosswire.org> <ref...@crosswire.org
<mailto:ref...@crosswire.org>> wrote:
A while back I wrote about Bibleworks and its legacy. As part of
my further research I found that Bibleworks uses instead of a
GenBook format for user supplied books of that category the CHM
format.
How ubiquitous is CHM on our platforms? If all platforms can use
it , we could probably tap into a huge GenBook like module library
- specifically for textual research - for very little extra effort.
Peter
Petee
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