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