Archive - Jan 15, 2008

Date

February Meeting of Boston DUG

The Boston DITA Users Group will meet Tuesday, February 12, at 6:30PM.

Speaker: Eliot Kimber

Senior Solutions Architect
Really Strategies
www.reallysi.com

Topic: Specialization in Real Time Tutorial.

Eliot will create a topic specialization. Come prepared with suggestions for unique elements.

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BTI Systems Selects DocZone.com® for DITA CMS and Single-Source Publishing

January 15, 2008 – Bedford, NH – DocZone.com (www.doczone.com) today announced that BTI Systems, a leading provider of Optical Edge networking solutions for the delivery of gigabit services, has purchased a multi-year Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) contract to use the DocZone system for authoring, managing, and publishing DITA-based product content.

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Self on Help

DHTML in DITA Output

On a mailing list, I once read a comment to the effect that DITA was not suitable for Help, as it didn't provide support for popups. This comment rang a bell with me. When Microsoft released HTML Help (in 1995, I think), one of the first criticisms was that it didn't support rich text popups like good old WinHelp did. True, it did not, and its support for plain text popups was ungainly. Over time, the popup problem was solved by DHTML.

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