
When readers are browsing online documentation, they click cross-topic links a lot, and use the Table of Contents navigation quite often. With these use cases, if the entire page re-loads on every navigation, this may harm the documentation usability. To improve online documentation responsiveness, technical writers often use AJAX navigation. The idea is simple - link clicks are handled by JavaScript, and only a part of the page reloads. It certainly helps with the responsiveness part! However, this dynamic navigation may have a couple of side effects technical writers need to keep in mind, let’s take a look at them Continue reading »