Omni Systems, Inc. Mif2Go User's Guide, Version 55

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### 7.1.6 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:/.mif2go.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 §10 Generating OmniHelp.