8 May
2000
8 May
'00
10:09 a.m.
All the talk about the browser market is a red herring.
Internet Explorer
was never a product separate from Windows. It was a part of the OS utility
package called PLUS!. In Win98, it was integrated into the OS becauseit was
the tool for viewing the help files, among other things.
Sure, but why did Microsoft switch to HTML help? I did a document as a
Microsoft help file once and I still wish HTML had some of the features of
the Microsoft help system (pop-up windows for instance, which I found
very handy for a glossary; just click on the word for which you want a
definition and a little window pops up with the definition. The HTMl version
of this was an icky ActiveX applet that I never got to work right).
--
Roger Ivie
rivie(a)teraglobal.com
Not speaking for TeraGlobal Communications Corporation