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Making DHTML Menus Suck Less
There are designers on both sides of the DHTML menu issue. Some are liberal to use them and have no issue with them, and there are others (including myself) who think it’s not the ideal solution to a navigational structure. Navigation is unquestionably the most important part of any web application, and if it is […]
SharePoint 2010 and XHTML Validation
I’m writing this and another post about doing development on the SharePoint user interface and the overall user experiences to display some of my disappointment with issues I thought would’ve been resolved in this upcoming version. Microsoft has said on record they are supporting browsers that are XHTML 1.0 compliant, and they haven’t said officially […]
Adding Edit Dialog to a Data Form Web Part
A client asked me to create a roll-up of some document libraries, and I decided to exercise the data form web part. It worked fine until I was asked why he got an open/save dialog and not the standard SharePoint read-only/edit dialog from document libraries as to the right. After some help from some Twitter folk […]
The Pains of Altering the SharePoint UI
I was recently tagged to “brand” a SharePoint installation for Hirsch Pipe & Supply Co. I knew it would be an interesting challenge, but I had no idea how bad it truly would be. SharePoint is built on ASP.NET 2.0 which I had worked with in my previous job. I found ASP.NET very powerful and flexible. […]