OmniHelp displays Help in a tri-pane window, using frames. The top navigation pane presents the usual buttons: Start, Prev, Next, Back, Fwd, and Hide/Show. These buttons do what you would expect. Hide/Show controls the display of the left navigation pane.
Four navigation features list topic titles as links
The left navigation pane displays tabbed Contents, Index, Search, and Related:
OmniHelp integrates these four features to provide a common, consistent way of using each. In all four, the navigation pane contains a list of topic titles that are linked to the topics they identify. There are no buttons to look for, and no additional dialogs to work through.
Use current or new browser window
You can view OmniHelp two ways:
• In the current browser window, whatever its size may be.
• In a separate window of settable size, with most of the browser “chrome” removed, leaving a simple menu and status-bar frame. At present, this works in Internet Explorer and Opera, but not in Firefox or other Mozilla-derived browsers.