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For reasons best known to Microsoft, some help files have links that invoke an ActiveX object via JavaScript, alongside their ordinary links which work just fine.

Example:

<OBJECT ID="hhobj_1" TYPE="application/x-oleobject" CLASSID="clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11">
        <PARAM NAME="Command" VALUE="ALink,MENU">
        <PARAM NAME="DefaultTopic" VALUE="../notopic_0pk4.htm">
        <PARAM NAME="Item1" VALUE="">
        <PARAM NAME="Item2" VALUE="_win32_getfileversioninfo">
</OBJECT>

...

<P><A HREF="JavaScript:hhobj_1.Click()"><B>GetFileVersionInfo</B></A> <BR>

Not 100% sure on the semantics of this yet, but it'd be nice to be able to generate HTML from multiple versions of the same CHMs (say, MSDN for example...) and have a link to see other versions on each page.

Basically unpack multiple chm files side-by-side into a common parent directory, with a shared TOC between them all.

7z doesn't respect umask and seems to extract everything as 0600 (0700 for directories). Need a step which fixes up permissions afterwards.

High bit characters in content pages aren't encoded correctly.

We should either encode each content page according to the charset specified in the original, or encode as UTF-8 and replace the embedded content-type.

The Oct 2001 MSDN has a broken stylesheet which has been copied in several places with/without modifications.

I'm inclined to add a mechanism for patching files by checksum and shipping patches for known issues in existing CHMs.

Turns out some chm files have some files using one mix of cases in the htm filenames and a different mix in the hhc/links.

Yay!

• Allow resizing (possibly going to require JS?)
• Can we consolidate the sidebar into fewer HTML files and use another iframe from the wrapper page? Probably would JS shenanigans to collapse/highlight entries as necessary.
• Force scroll position to currently active node on load, probably JS again...
• Avoid wrapping if possible - dynamically size the sidebar? Enable horizontal scrollbar?