I'm just checking if you know a work-around to the problem where we can't use the contentEditable attribute on iPads? I know we can edit the compact.browser to redirect iPad users to the mobile version but we don't want to do this.
Is there some jQuery magic we can use or any 3rd party app you recommend for a rich experience with SharePoint 2010 and iPad?
Thanks in advance.
What you need is a rich text component that is based on canvas rather than contentEditable. Unfortunately such a thing doesn't yet exist as far as I am aware, at least not as a ready to use component.
You can use jQuery to update the content in any of SharePoint's editable areas and it will be saved (I know this mostly because it tends to save dynamic stuff I don't want saved), so it is possible to set something up with a textarea and sync script, but probably more work than you are looking for.
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How can I stop search engines indexing part of my page? Is there an HTML5 element for this?
Its just a line of text that I want to hide (a co-worker doesnt want their name on google for some reason). Im thinking that I could inject the text with javascript, but I have heard google does sometimes look inside javascript files.
I also thought of using images instead of text, but im concerned how this will look cross device and platform. Ive noted text rendering can differ on mac and pc and thats before ive had to think about mobile devices, retina displays, etc.
Thanks
You can't hide content unless you use the methods you've already outlined above. Your best bet is to use JavaScript in an external file and then block that file using robots.txt.
I need to implement a dialog for a web application (ASP.NET/C#) where users can search and select one or more clients from the company's database.
Actually an existing version is already used (see attached image) and I have to replace it with a new version (it comes from an external legacy software and will be dismissed).
The goal is to provide an intuitive and easy to use GUI, still providing the basic functionalities like: search for a client and add it or remove previously inserted.
My idea would be to develop the dialog with jQuery Dialog plugin and using web methods and Ajax/JSON to interact with them for interacting with the server and the DB. I cannot find a good solution yet for the contacts list, since I would avoid using GridViews or tables, if possible, for listing them.
Does anyone knows if further plugins or best patters exist for develop this UI and its functionalities?
I wanted to have the same in my application. After talking to the users i found that such dialog could easily be replaced by an Autocomplete with Multiple select.
See the jqueryUI demopage here.
If this does not fit your needs i would go with two lists <ol> or <ul>, a pagination plugin and perhaps a search plugin. But haven't done this so far.
Thanks for the hint, indeed for the search I also thought to a autocomplete for make the search easier.
My bigger concerns were about the Add and Remove selected Clients in a "modern" fashion.
I found this MultiSelect plugin that works perfectly for my needs (and maybe it could be useful for yours as well).
Not only it let use Multiselect to add/remove entries, but also have some auto-filtering capabilities when searching the entries. I will try to add this to my solution.
I have a web application that uses TinyMce to allow rich text editing. Some of my customers are desperate to get it to work on iPad (which doesn't support contenteditable and therefore TinyMce doesn't work)
At the moment the only choices I have are:
Disallow rich text editing when i detect the browser is iPad. This is not much of a solution because my app relies heavily on rich text editing
Wait for iPad to support contentEditable
Write my own iPad app. This isn't really workable because it's a big complex app with loads of HTML and javascript and I would have to rewrite it all
Use another browser. As far as I know none of the other browsers support contenteditable either.
I'm really keen to find some workable solution. is there such thing as a rich text editor that doesn't require contenteditable? or does anyone have a clever idea I hadn't thought of?
Thanks in advance
Andy
As of June 2011, it looks like there may be support coming in iOS 5
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/06/08/will-ios-5s-safari-deliver-better-support-for-web-editors/
this observation (that it's working in the beta) has been confirmed by a colleague of mine too.
Write my own iPad app. This isn't
really workable because it's a big
complex app with loads of HTML and
javascript and I would have to rewrite
it all
Not necessarily true. You can embed the working part of your web app in a UIWebView component, which is basically Safari embedded in your app, and handle the not working part in the app (providing content). It would require work for sure, but maybe a lot less than rewriting the whole app for iPad.
At to this point there are no browsers on the ipad that will allow RTE. Actually there is only one phone giving full browser support for RTE (sry, i forgot the name of the phone).
Therefor, i think you almost showed all possible solutions (jv42's suggestion excluded) yourselve.
I have to make formatting available for a text box in a web based application just like the options available here to make selected text bold or in italics. I don't know where to start. can anyone please guide me.
Thanks
Why reinvent the wheel? Use something that already exists:
TinyMCE
CKEditor
Here's a list of ten different rich text editors that will do what you need.
http://www.queness.com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors
Depends on what you're going to be coding in, but I'm sure most languages have built-in types for text boxes that can handle formatted text (not unlike the one I'm typing in right now), and probably have a method that returns the contents of the box.
All you'd need is to figure out is the format code, if you want to store this text and open it elsewhere.
If you want to create from "scratch", you can use any JavaScript framework to ease your work. There are many "good" frameworks out there:
jQuery, ExtJS, GWT, YUI, etc. Just choose the one that suits to your need.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_JavaScript_frameworks
I am unable to decide whether what to use for my blackberry application.
I am developing an application for Blackberry Device. This application send and recieves data from website.
Thats the only functionality.
I wanted to know what the best approach to go with.
Shall i use BrowserField and display html in the application??
OR
Shall i develop the custom controls and update the UI with the data fetched from the web??
Please Suggest, advice.
thanks
SIA
If you don't need to change html, and html is simple enough, it's better to use BrowserField. You will be able to natively represent text and images in html formatting. Even if you go offline you can init it with stored html. Also, you can extract a part of response and use it with BrowserField.
On the other hand, if custom formatting or interactivity is needed, its better to use RIM UI controls.