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CHM (Developers)

posted by marcov, 28.08.2008, 14:32

> > The trouble is that CHM is roughly compressed html. So to faithfully
> > reproduce any chm, you need to emulate nearly a full IE, with quirks
> mode,
> > x86 activeX objects etc.
>
> There is also *.html.gz format. It's in the HTML spec, should be supported
> by compliant (all current?) browsers.

(Are you sure? Afaik HTTP2 allows for GZ compression, but .gz on HTML sounds like an Unix extension, not something a standard would describe, since .gz is meaning less on a standard windows install. Do you have a reference?)

Well, the crucial part is the combination of archive functionality with compression, and an preexisting viewer (This because the slack space of tens of thousands of little html files is as important as the compression).

Also .chm has the ability to embed internal files, which are important for additional tables for e.g. context sensitive help etc.

All browsers will be internal anyway, since starting up and fully instrumenting the many commonly used browsers is next to impossible.

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