Javahelp or html help?

I have a cross platform application that I'm finally putting the help file together for, using Robohelp. The javahelp files look pretty bad and seem to be constructed differently each time I compile, in additions to poor font support. I'm now starting to think about using a HTML based system and to open it on IE on the PC and Safari on the Mac. Does anyone have any comment on this approach, will there be problems or functionality loss?
thanks

I don't know what 'Robohelp' is, but have you tried Sun's own JavaHelp 2.0?
kind regards,
Jos

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