Version 0.7.0 of hTWOo got released today. [Read more]
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CSS Keyframe Animations in SharePoint Framework
Using a @keyframes animation in SPFx might not work for you. The reason is the built-in CSS Modules that needs a special treatment defining the animation and how you have to call them.
First, let’s take a look at the issue.
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The numeric colour palettes in modern web frameworks explained
Colour palettes are a mystery in and of itself. Fluent Design, Material Design, Tailwind or even Bootstrap have them, and the colours have colour labels. I always wondered where these numbers are coming from until I recently had enlightenment.[Read more]
Native lazy-loading images with aspect-ratio
Recently two changes have been shipped with the latest browsers versions that impact your development today too. In short, you can now better define the loading behaviour for images. It’s big news in case of performance and usability. Those changes are:
- Always use height and width on images
- Natively Lazy-load images and iframes
How to test responsiveness and user experience for SPFx web parts properly
You might have recognised that the workbench of the SharePoint Framework has a responsive design tester included. In this blog post, I take a look what possibilities we have to properly test the responsiveness and the user experience of a web part.
There are also some pitfalls included if you entirely rely on the integrated too.
Un-brand Office 365 Tenant-wide – A Design Showcase
In Office 365 there is a great mechanism that allows you to implement a corporate wide branding on the suite bar. The customer can apply their logo and their corporate colors there.
On Monday I thought to myself what if I can make the suite bar less distracting than it is. The solid black and blue combination draw a lot of attention on every load while browsing the various portals and applications.
I customized my suite bar in the admin center to have a white background with the logo in the center of the page. All content pages in Office 365 so the white background, I thought, will seamlessly integrate the ribbon on the page instead of standing out.
Image Renditions available in Modern Team Sites
Yes, you read correctly. The modern team sites got image renditions or at least predefined image formats that will be used by the responsive experience of modern team sites.
Back in the past image renditions was exclusively available in publishing sites only. Well, you were able to use them in team sites too, but the publishing features had to be enabled at site collection level. In addition, classic image renditions might cause negative performance impacts. This was first spotted and documented by Chris O´Brien.
I guess this new feature doesn’t have much to do with the traditional image rendition and you are able to use it in your web part code too. For example, if you like to write a custom image gallery or develop a classic display template.
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SimpleStyle version 0.3 released – Yeoman
It’s been a while since the first release of the SimpleStyle yeoman generator. In the mean time some smaller releases happened and things have been patched up.
Recently I made some additional enhancements that now lead to the release of version 0.3 available now to install.
The following improvements have been made.
Remove “Read more” from SharePoint Forms through CSS
While working on a responsive design project based on SharePoint 2016. I discovered a nice workaround how to remove the “Read more” tag. Since SharePoint 2013 the collapsed task form is an issue to many customers. It hides by default some important fields of a task and the extra click you have to do is not that nice at all.