https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/merge_requests/3213 Wow - quite the change.
On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 6:15 PM Gerald Combs <ger...@wireshark.org> wrote: > I just discovered that the HTML Help Workshop download link at > > > https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/htmlhelp/microsoft-html-help-downloads > > no longer works, and the Chocolatey package now downloads from archive.org > : > > https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/html-help-workshop#files > > I'll take a look at switching the Windows installers over to plain HTML. > > On 5/26/21 2:30 PM, Gerald Combs wrote: > > I think the only advantage that HTML Help offers at this point is the > ability to search for keywords. It otherwise adds a build requirement which > results in shipping a different help format on Windows, and the HTML Help > Viewer seems to behave worse as time goes on. I'd be OK with switching to > plain HTML. > > > > > > On 5/26/21 12:28 PM, Graham Bloice wrote: > >> Personally I prefer help to be local and not require internet access, > and I despise those local help abominations that spew hundreds of html > files into the filesystem. > >> > >> Not sure what's up with the links, maybe we need to make them pass off > to the system default browser rather than trying to render them in the HTML > help browser. > >> > >> On Wed, 26 May 2021 at 18:02, chuck c <bubbas...@gmail.com <mailto: > bubbas...@gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200701/msg00396.html > <https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200701/msg00396.html> > >> > >> "Pressing the help button will: > >> - on Win32 only: if available, open the Windows Help viewer with > locally installed user-guide.chm file - and if that fails ... - on all > systems: start a web browser and open the corresponding wireshark.org < > http://wireshark.org> online page" > >> > >> Clicking links in Windows HTML Help viewer is painful (and a little > unnerving) with script errors. > >> > >> Is it time to sunset and have Windows help act like non-Windows > platforms? > >> Or maybe add a step to the CHM build process that makes the links > non-clickable so the user would need to copy/paste into a browser? > >> > >> chuckc > >> > >> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > >> Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list < > wireshark-dev@wireshark.org <mailto:wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>> > >> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev < > https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev> > >> Unsubscribe: > https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev < > https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev> > >> mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org <mailto: > wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org>?subject=unsubscribe > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Graham Bloice > >> > >> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > >> Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > >> Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > >> Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > >> mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org > ?subject=unsubscribe > >> > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> > Archives: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev > Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev > mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org > ?subject=unsubscribe >
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