Help, With A View To ... The Future?
I've often thought of developing a Help viewer that could display more than one kind of Help. I'd likely start with HTML Help and MS Help 2.0 at first, especially since I already know how to build the MS Help 2.0 variety. And the related Help Object Library works with both WinHelp and HTML Help. But then I get to thinking about LongHorn.Help and how that would muck up the works, and that we really don't know how to read WinHelp file internals. Such a viewer to read all four formats would possibly be a serious mess internally.
Or would it?
It's dificult to say how it would work. It would likely be best to build a viewer that worked more as a foundation, and then build plug-ins to work with each of the various formats. That would seem to make the most sense.
But with COM being possibly on its way out, would that work at all?
I'll have to think about that ...