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From: "James Lefavour" <jamesl AT mail DOT albany DOT net>
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Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:27:26 -0500
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Subject: Re: [opendos] Wishlist v2.0
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> On Sun, 23 Mar 1997, yeep wrote:
> 
> > > > OD faster than W95.
> > > A good idea would be use a hypertext format like INFO but modify it to
> > > allow the use of images/sound..or jsut HTML and compress it to save HD
> > > space, and have help de-compress as needed
> > 
> > HTML is great!
> > I've heard Windows 97 will be using it instead of the normal Windows help.
> > And the driver stuff is also very cool, kinda like X-windows Window
> > Managers.
> 
> Yes, I must agree.  Due to the popularity of the WWW, and of the
> GUI browsers that are out there, I recommend that all future
> online documentation for OpenDOS (or anything else for that
> matter) be distributed as HTML.  A normal browser could read it
> then.  The only thing that really needs to be thought about is
> how the compression/decompression of the HTML is going to work to
> save space.  The browser will probably have to be modified to
> accept a type something like:
> 
> Content-type: octet-stream/html-zip
> 
> Or something like that.  Then UNZIP is called transparently and
> the page is viewed.
> 
> What does everyone else think? 

I think that this is a good idea - but I worry that we may not have 
compatibility with existing apps - somehow, we are going to have to 
support the winhelp formats - don't know how tho :-(

But some super programmers will work out both of these problems, and 
I may be able to contribute something myself :-)

Command-line income, GUI dreams <g>

Jim

jamesl AT albany DOT net - http://www.albany.net/~jamesl/