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Tuesday, March 1, 2022

How is this Done?

For decades, I have been curious about the technology I encounter daily. 

This dates back to at least 2005. My curiosity led me to receive the RoboHelp MVP award for answering questions in the Adobe forums. I point to the fact that I would seek out WinHelp (.hlp) files. If I saw something I wanted to implement into my WinHelp files at work, I would download the WinHelp (.hlp) file - many times to my PC at home at my leisure (off-work) and then decompile the .hlp file in order to figure out how the original technical writer implemented the cool thing I wanted to implement in my WinHelp files at work. At the time, I was working with a master.cnt layout of connecting 100+ WinHelp files seamlessly into what looked like a single WinHelp file. It was truly awesome. 

So that's the background for why I was looking at this email I received this morning. I spent a couple of minutes drawing lines from the email preview on the left to the corresponding text on the right. The question is: where is the text in green on the right side? My best guess is that there's text in the HTML code, somewhere, that shows that text in the green box on the left, but not on the right. Maybe? I do not know...



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