Why chm files suck

The original Symbian UIQ 2.1 documentation consisted of a lot of HTML files. For easier navigation, a Java Applet was provided with a tree view and a search function.
A week ago, SonyEricsson released the UIQ SDK 2.1 Update 1 which replaces the HTML files with a single chm file. What’s absolutely stupid is that you cannot bookmark specific pages using Microsoft HTML Help. Intrestingly, you can copy links found in a chm file. When you paste a link in MS Word and click again on it, IE is opened for displaying the page! But in IE, there is no table of contents and no search capability for the chm file.

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