Read the book!

XML Press has published MadCap Flare for Programmers: A guide to getting the most from Flare by Thomas Tregner and David Owens. I’m pretty excited about this. We cover the core subjects of this blog, often in greater detail. Some of the examples will look familiar but with more background information and deeper explanations. Other examples… Continue reading Read the book!

Fun with Online TOCs!: #4, Single Page Scrolling Navigation Using XHTML Book and Bootstrap Scrollspy

My manager asked me to build a prototype single page Flare output that implements a right-hand navigation that updates with scrolling. The example I was given was the documentation for the Bootstrap library. The documentation for Bootstrap uses Bootstrap. We used Bootstrap too. Here is how the prototype looks. The link after this image is… Continue reading Fun with Online TOCs!: #4, Single Page Scrolling Navigation Using XHTML Book and Bootstrap Scrollspy

Today in Technical Communication

An extensive lunch time review of content posted on technical communication blogs so far today has revealed, unlike April 1st posts in previous years, there have been no tongue-in-cheek blog posts in the tech comm blogosphere whatsoever. None. We have all resisted the urge to fill other’s RSS feeds with silly nonsense. Take these posts… Continue reading Today in Technical Communication

Fun with Online TOCs!: #3, Revisualizing a TOC by Upgrading to Flare Version 10

This doesn’t involve scripting or programming. I hesitated to include this post because it may come off as a promotion for the new version of MadCap Flare. But this series is about revisualizing TOCs and what better way to do that than to use out-of-the-box improvements? The latest version of MadCap Flare includes an updated… Continue reading Fun with Online TOCs!: #3, Revisualizing a TOC by Upgrading to Flare Version 10

Fun with Online TOCs!: #2, Revisualizing a TOC with arbor.js

The arbor.js library is described on the arbor.js site as follows. a graph visualization library using web workers and jQuery A TOC is a graph. So let’s see what what we can do with arbor.js and TOCs. Here is how a first attempt turned out. The following is the main page. The first topic displays… Continue reading Fun with Online TOCs!: #2, Revisualizing a TOC with arbor.js

Fun with Online TOCs!: #1, Draggable HTML5 TOC Panes with jQuery UI

Does jQuery UI draggable work with HTML5 output? https://jqueryui.com/draggable/ It does, at least in the most recent version of the Chrome browser where it was tested. Here is a link to an example or you can try it in the iframe that follows. Go ahead. Click and drag the TOC. Draggable TOC Demo Here is… Continue reading Fun with Online TOCs!: #1, Draggable HTML5 TOC Panes with jQuery UI

Links for Today’s Scripting Webinar (October 2, 2013)

Recording The Power of Scripts in MadCap Flare’s HTML5 Output Key events and key codes Clear a Flare HTML5 Search Field with the Escape Key Toolbar Examples Project Show-hide and effects with jQuery Show and Hide with jQuery in HTML5 Output Embellishing the jQuery Slides with Fade Effects Finding elements and show and hide with… Continue reading Links for Today’s Scripting Webinar (October 2, 2013)