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November 27, 2012
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Multiscreen HTML 5 - What to give to Development?

  • November 27, 2012
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Hello,

I am creating a new help project for one of our iPad apps. This is the first time I have compiled with the Multiscreen HTML 5 primary layout.

When I compile in WebHelp, I check the entire WebHelp folder (...\!SSL!\WebHelp) into our SVN content management system for Development to get. (With HTML, they just take the .chm file of course).

For these iPad multiscreen builds, should I just give Development the contents of ipad folder (..!SSL!\Multiscreen_HTML5\ipad)?

Thanks very much for the help. I saw in another post that you can change the color shemes for the multiscreen layout, so that's good news. I will give that a try as well.

Kevin

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Peter Grainge
Peter Grainge
Adobe Expert
November 27, 2012

It is likely that is what you will do but by no means certain. Take a look at the RoboHelp Tour on my site. In the RoboHelp 10 content I describe the options. You may want to show that to your developers too.

See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips

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Willam van Weelden
Willam van Weelden
Inspiring
November 27, 2012

You'll have to give the entire output folder to your developers. If you have more than one layout, the root folder will contain several outputs, one for each device.

The root folder contains scripts and files to direct the user to the correct output for their device. This becomes even more important if you ever want to used merged HTML5 help or multiple devices.

Greet,

Willam

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Anonymous
December 19, 2012

Hi,

The CSS selector for the results text preview is span.wSearchContext and span.wSearchContextSmallScr. The topic background is set in div.wTopic.

Tinkering with the HTML5 layouts is no walk in the park. I will publish a couple of articles about this in the coming weeks. Stay tuned to my site!

Greet,

Willam


Thanks very much, Willam.

To begin with, sorry for misspelling your name this whole time. There is no phantom, second "i." Poor editing job on my part for a tech writer.

We had our developer take a look at this HTML5 help today, and the iPad style, my default layout, works with an android phone and android tablet, but, ironically, not on an iPad itself. So, I contacted Adobe regarding this. The look and feel needs to be consistent but as of now it's not. Here's what our developer wrote in an e-mail to those of us working on it: "RoboHelp is supposed to detect the device type and screen resolution and redirect to the appropriate page, but that does not appear to be working at all. It sends the iPad to the Android phone site, my Android tablet to the iPad site, etc. None of it looks exactly the way it looks on Kevin's preview through RoboHelp, even though I verified we have the same stylesheet."

What he is referring to concerning my preview is that the preview I see in RH after I generate the help is not accurate. It is not what is truly being seen in the devices themselves. So, I've been trying to make changes to the mobile.css file basing these changes on what I'm seeing in the RH preview, which is what we now know to be inaccurate and not truly what the user will see. We believe that has to do with me running IE9 and IE9 not fully supporting HTML5. So, that is a fixable issue on our end.

I hope Adobe can give us some guidance on the output problem, though. When you wrote that HTML5 is no walk in the park, you were completely accurate.

Again, thanks for all of your help.

Kevin

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