Comment by mschuster91

Windows actually had a decent built-in manual system with CHM, tooltips and whatnot. Even games could and did use it, like EarthSiege 2.

Back in the days when application developers stuck to the Windows-provided widgets instead of doing their own UI, it was wonderful. Symbols were consistent across applications, as were color schemes (IIRC, if you wrote your CSS correctly, Internet Explorer would pass these on to websites!) and behavior.

I miss these days.