Re: Game Guide - Hosted
Oh yes - another reason for the HTML Game Guide is updates.
If you made it a PDF, then the entire document is a "binary blob" of huge size. Make an edit and then the update file needs a copy of the entire new mega-blob.
The HTML text part is quite small, and an edit is not a big hit to the relisting update file. The installer programme can zip up simple text files just fine - a PDF binary blob, probably less so. And if an image needs updating we simply replace that 1 image in the separate images sub-folder since images are stored external to the HTML text and loaded as the HTML browser needs them, not wrapped up in a great big binary data blob.
Also, back in the day we eventually had to split the HTML up into chapters when the text got "too big" for the HTML editor of the day, but a few years ago with a new edit tool, we tried putting it all back in one linear file again to see if it would work - and it ate that fine, so no more need to use chapters, and searching the entire document was enhanced as well.
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