#### 16.1.6 Evaluating OmniHelp

If you need cross-platform compatibility and easy localization, and you can manage with a JavaScript-based Help system, consider OmniHelp. You can read the OmniHelp Design Report here:

http://www.dita2go.com

Unlike JavaHelp, Oracle Help, or Eclipse Help, on the client side OmniHelp is based entirely on JavaScript. OmniHelp uses only JavaScript, framesets, and CSS; and therefore works on any operating system, with any current browser. For international use, if you furnish translated versions of text contained in three small JavaScript files, you have a localized interface. A technical writer can edit the text in these files without disturbing the JavaScript code.

OmniHelp provides contents and index, full-text Boolean search with JavaScript-style regular expressions, Context Sensitive Help, related-topic links, pop-ups, and secondary windows.

See §19. Generating OmniHelp.

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Parent Topic: 16.1 Weighing Help-system alternatives

Sibling Topics:

16.1.1 Considering Help-system features

16.1.2 Understanding the effects of mid-topic links

16.1.3 Evaluating Microsoft Windows Help (WinHelp)

16.1.4 Evaluating Microsoft HTML Help

16.1.5 Evaluating WebHelp

16.1.7 Evaluating JavaHelp and Oracle Help for Java

16.1.8 Evaluating Eclipse Help