If you’ve been following along with this series, you’ve probably been thinking “Great, but what can I do with HTML5 in SharePoint?” In other words ‘What’s in it for me?” Let’s take a look at a simple example. First of all, as I mentioned in the last article, we need to make some modifications to…
Mark Rackley (@MrAckley) and I had a Twonversation with Jeff Jones (@SPJeff) about a month ago about when it is good to use SharePoint’s Client Side Object Model (CSOM) over SPServices. You can see the important bits of that conversation in the image to the right. (Yeah, it’s taken us forever to get this post done. I…
I’ve changed pages countless times in SharePoint Designer, but this case, where I wanted to make a relatively small change to the home page of a Blog site, proved especially onerous. In most cases, overriding the default XSL is as simply as editing what’s there and saving your changes. It would seem that the team…
In my last article I talked about what HTML5 is and that it will help us get to a more “Semantic Web”, but I didn’t explain what the W3C standards really mean. Partly that’s because the process is long and drawn out and murky at best. When I talk about the HTML5 recommendations and standards,…
Many of you have heard that there’s something new coming, and that it’s called HTML5. Or maybe that it’s here but you can’t take advantage of it due to the browser you use or because you use SharePoint. As with most new things these days, there’s way too much information available about HTML5 to sift…