Ryan’s thoughts on RoboHelp
September 2nd, 2005 1 Comment
A while back I had a problem with glossary pop-ups I'd designed for the online help system I'd been working on. The content in these pop-ups was dynamically extracted from a central XML file and everything worked fine in HTML Help and in WebHelp when opened directly, but not when the WebHelp pages were served up over HTTP. I solved that problem (see Making XMLDOM ActiveX control work over HTTP) but then I found that RoboHelp pop-ups had the same symptom, apparently caused by something else (since the RoboHelp JavaScript doesn't use the XMLDOM ActiveX control).
Anyway, while searching Google for an answer I came across this article about RoboHelp in a blog by someone called Ryan:
www.youknowwhatpart.com/archives/2005/03/productivity_to.html
It's an interesting blog and I spent a bit of time there, but it left me wondering: who is this guy? How come he knows about RoboHelp and Madcap and Framemaker? Is he a technical writer? The blog gives nothing away. The "View my profile" link goes to a blank entry on Technorati.
But then I thought, my blog probably says nothing about who I am either!
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October 1st, 2008 at 4:53 pm (#)
Ryan is big into technologies. He did do tech writing in his days. A very interesting person to follow on his site. And a very good information person.