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Gary, be sure you also require that IE8 NOT be running your help in Compatibility View, which essentially turns IE8 into IE7. This setting won't even recognize many of the long-established CSS3 specifications that other browsers do, let alone the anticipated HTML5/WebHelp 2.0 features.


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HTML5 target, General tab, Output File: index


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Leon

Here's what I submitted as a bug report, based on initial results in testing a merged HTML5 output:

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
In addition to these HTML5 issues already reported in the forum:

* No ...

Use the "Try It Yourself" sections in the W3schools web site: http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp


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Leon

No, Flare considers the mini-TOC to be TOC-concentric only (whereas RoboHelp considers it to be topic-centric only). The MiniToc Proxy dialog reads "that shows headings below the current topic ." That's not headings inside the current topic, but under the current topic."

That is,

* The topic must ...

Flare will "layer" your styles so that certain words will carry multiple formats.
CSS, on the other hand, will not; it considers a style assignment as a "one-or-the-other" format.

Both logical, only different.


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Leon

You won't actually be "converting" WebHelp to HTML5; you'll just create a new HTML5 target and make that the Primary target. (You'll still be able to produce WebHelp anytime you want to.)

Note that opening the project in Flare 8 means you cannot open it in Flare 7 again. Just so you know...

As to ...

Would you like to share? That would be helpful to other users landing on this page in the future.


Good luck,
Leon

[Update on my earlier discussion about the problems I was having with the Alt shortcut key.]

Since this keyboard function is actually an accessibility issue, I tried opening Control Panel > Accessibility Options (d'Oh!). Lo and behold, the first panel is entitled StickyKeys, which reads: "Use ...

New Flare user (last May with Flare 7), limited usage of Ribbon in Word, now a Ribbon convert (primarily because of the Quick Access toolbar). Frankly, if the QA toolbar were available with the menu bar, I might not have switched!


Leon

Yes, Dave, they're "stored in" the .flprj file, but they cannot be manually added to the .flprj file.

Well, they can, but Flare won't acknowledge and implement them if it didn't put them there itself, through the UI. Believe me, I tried that!


Leon

I'm thinking you might want to do the li styling for this. The reasoning? You might want to use specific styles for the overall ul format, but then tailor the li styles with complex selectors based on where the list is used (inside a Note para, inside a table, inside a drop-down, as a sublist, etc ...

Personally, the idea of "moving tools" in the UI? I just don't get why anyone needs to do that! :? But then, I started at DEC using an early markup language, DSR-Plus (aka, Runoff) on a black (actually, a nice shade of teal) screen. But I do like the Quick Access toolbar!

My concerns with Flare are ...

Gotta love that Quick Access toolbar! It's like a Super Tab, tailored to my workflow. Woo-hoo!

Now, has anyone tried the Ribbon shortcuts (press Alt and then select the letters and numbers that appear in little grey boxes on the Ribbon)? I'm arguing with Flare support (Case 34302) about their lack ...

Inge, the software business is like all others: decisions filter down from the top. That is, developers are often only implementing the bad decisions of marketing, product managers, VP's of Engineering, Development, Design, Boards of Directors, Owners, and on and on and...

Yes, developers might go ...

Yuck! Who knew?

All the more reason to create your own (we had already done that in RoboHelp, and it carried over to the Flare conversion). That's why it all looked unfamiliar!

Flare's got some 'splaining to do!


Leon

I'll probably be sorry I jumped into this, but...

I ran a search for "0.67" in every CSS file under this Program Folder:

C:\Program Files\MadCap Software\MadCap Flare V8

The only instance I found was in Flare.app\Resources\English\Templates\Projects\Sample Book.flprj\Content\Resources\Stylesheets ...

me, too...

I'm still using a 2005 book by Richard York, Beginning CSS: Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design.

It's surprisingly still current as to CSS3 content, but I see there's a revised (2011) edition available (thru Amazon).


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Leon

http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp

...and buy a book (there are plenty available).


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Leon

You know, you're right, Lisa. I never considered that proxy!

But you can only select one tag, as you surmised. Still, that might help stephencavers.


Leon

It isn't, sorry. My enhancement request from April 2011 (to offer two mini-TOC options, one for external TOC items, another for internal headings) was not addressed in Flare 8. Perhaps if others bombarded Flare with requests, we might see a resolution? Hint, hint, hint...


Good luck,
Leon


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Probably the long-standing Windows/HAT issue, in which you have to pull a switcheroo to fake out the system; it doesn't consider case to be a renaming function, and therefore ignores it (for your own good, it thinks).

Add or remove a character(s) (such as adding a trailing _0), which effectively ...

That Ribbon keyboard shortcut feature seems not ready for prime time. Here are the major issues I've discovered in my early testing (which I'll be submitting in a bug report).

ACCESSIBILITY FAILURE
Each key selection removes focus from the topic's insertion point and therefore requires the user to ...

Inge's correct!

I just ran into the same viewing issue, and the medium switcheroo fixed it. Just remember to switch it back to your original setting afterwards. And maybe report the bug to MadCap, as I'm about to do.


Thx, Inge,
Leon