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I always assumed that the green help links color was intentionally differentiated from regular blue web links to clearly imply that they remain within the "Help
by sgarrity 5y ago
I always assumed that the green help links color was intentionally differentiated from regular blue web links to clearly imply that they remain within the "Help" universe.
The timeline might undermine my assumption.
- JonathonW 5y agoI don't think the timeframe's right for that-- were there ever even any web browsers that ran on Windows 3.0? At any rate, there wouldn't be any need to distinguish internal help links from web links, because neither Windows 3.0 nor 3.1 ever shipped with a web browser-- can't link out in your docs if the tools aren't available to follow the links. Early versions of Windows 95 didn't, either, with IE 2.0 being bundled with the OS for the first time with OSR1.
- timClicks 5y agoI might be remembering this incorrectly, but I don't think that Windows 3.0 even had support for TCP/IP networking by default.
- JonathonW 5y agoNor did 3.1. Windows for Workgroups 3.11 did eventually get a first-party TCP/IP stack from Microsoft (as an add-on), but TCP/IP was largely the domain of third-party products up until Windows 95.