NppExec Manual: CHM vs. HTML version [poll]
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NppExec’s Manual exists in a form of a “NppExec_Manual.chm” file for years.
To be honest, I’m still happy with the CHM format: it is a single local file which is a container for many embedded HTML-formatted files, with internal indexing that allows to search by content.
But, starting from Windows 7, Microsoft began to slowly kill the CHM format, even though it was invented by the same Microsoft.
At first, a lot of users started to see only blank pages within a CHM file because “This web content was blocked”, until one manually unblocks a given CHM file.
Then, starting from either Windows 10 or Windows 11, Microsoft went even further. They do not allow users to open CHM files by default - unless you explicitly install a package/component that works with CHM files.Given all of that, I decided to create a poll to understand, whether it makes sense to still provide the “NppExec_Manual.chm” - or maybe it will be better to replace it with a purely HTML version that will be opened by means of a web browser.
Please share your thoughts.
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I voted “local HTML”, but my preference is actually “local HTML, which should include a link to the remote version”, so one can always find (and easily link to) the publically-available one. (I am always frustrated that when helping people with PythonScript plugin that I cannot cite a URL to a linkable copy of the PythonScript docs.)
So knowing that the online version of your docs exists is great (I don’t think I remembered that), but making sure you can easily get there from the local docs is also important (because I won’t remember that URL in a few days, let alone next year when I want to point someone to a specific part of the manual).
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Hello, @vitalii-dovgan,
By choosing
Your option, I meant that the @peterjones’s option , with a link to the remote version, seems the best choice !Best Regards,
guy038
