HTML: Making the Move
http://www.stc.org/confproceed/1997/PDFs/0154.PDF

Radecki, Steven Lewis
STC Proceedings
1997

Abstract:

HTML is perhaps the most discussed topic in technical communications since the invention of the word processor. Interest in the Internet and the World Wide Web has exploded beyond anyone’s expectations (and perhaps their imagination as well). Microsoft has announced that they are moving away from Rich Text Format (Rw) as the source format for their Windowsbased online help systems, and Netscape is in the process of developing a cross-platform online help API that is also based on HTML. The question seems no longer to be whether or not to make the move to HTML, but when to make the move.