In my article on custom rich-text-editor (RTE) styles in SharePoint 2010, I noted that while it’s easy to add styles, or to wipe out all the default styles and replace them with your own, it’s not easy to modify the list of default styles — Remove a few but keep...
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Tag Archives: cross-browser
Displaying links alphabetically in columns
As a developer, I’m often asked to display a dynamic list of links based on page types. For example, a pet store may have a page for each type of pet it sells, and they would like a landing page that automatically displays links to all those pages. I’ve created...
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An example of SharePoint responsive design
We recently went live with a responsive retrofit of a complex SharePoint site: the website of Tennant Company. Their site looks like this at desktop resolution (click the image for a larger view): It looks like this on a small screen: You can see the responsive styles in action by...
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jQuery teaser animation
Today we’ll explore a jQuery-powered animation effect that you sometimes see: An object that moves across the screen, morphing into a fixed button when it reaches the opposite side of the browser window. Here’s an example. It’s certainly not a best practice from a UX point of view — most...
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Responsive design and server-side code
Update This post has been completely re-written to describe a better way of making server-side code responsive. Instead of posting the variable through Ajax, it uses GET to load a fully-responsive page. A few code tweaks make the technique both user- and search-engine friendly. Update 2: In screensize.php, changed window.location.href...
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