It’s not as convenient as an online help authoring tool, but it still has its uses. But where’s MAML and where’s CHM, right? 😏īut why did I put quotes around the ‘help’ word? Well, because it’s mostly used for software documentation - and that’s the area where it really shines. Yeah, Microsoft presented it back in 1997, and in 2003 they announced that they discontinued the support for it (though they released an updated 1.4 version in 2006), and officially dropped the Help 2.0 development, instead focusing on an entirely new thing - MAML. They also include an index and a table of contents with hyperlinks to all pages.ĬHM (I’ll call it that instead of HTMLHelp, okay?) has been around for a couple of decades, though officially it died five years after the first version was introduced. chm files are ‘help’ files, consisting of HTML pages. HTMLHelp is what it’s really called - and it’s pretty self-explanatory, isn’t it? Yes. Well, the format itself is not called CHM - it’s only a file extension.

Chm document