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Excellent post. Great ideas and well articulated. ...

2009-12-03T10:06:59.134+01:00

Excellent post. Great ideas and well articulated. I have not used Greasemonkey before, so I'll have to take a deeper look. I also like what you've done with the loadScripts. I've seen Paul Grenier (Autosponge) do something similiar I believe with using a JSON object to determine which dependencies to load. I've done something similiar with the jPointLoader.js, which is part of the jPoint project.

I also wanted to see if you have had time to look at jPoint's script deployment methodology. I think that scripts can be wrapped into .dwp files and added the Web Part Gallery and deployed by end users just like any other web part. jPoint refers to scripts in content editor web parts as "jParts". When the page is in design mode, the jPart turns into a config mode (yellow background) where the user can change the parameters used to execute the script. Look at around the 3 minute mark at this screencast http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwCMzibnrLU. Also, see my latest blog entry to see my deployment model - http://willhlaw.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/a-slide-from-my-spsdc-jpoint-presentation/. I'll be interested to hear your opinion on the pros and cons for this model.

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Not sure why I have never come across this blog, i...

2009-08-14T13:09:52.193+02:00

Not sure why I have never come across this blog, it has some excellent content.

With regards to injecting code at run-time, this technique you describe works realy well in combinatin with our (Free) SharePoint Infuser, which allows you to easily inject content (JavaScript, JQuery etc) on every page.

For details see http://www.muhimbi.com/blog/2009/07/massage-sharepoint-into-submission.html

Hi Rocky Sorry for taking so long to reply - I ju...

2009-07-21T11:34:53.852+02:00

Hi Rocky

Sorry for taking so long to reply - I just got back from vactation :-)

I haven't attempted to do exactly what you're describing, but it shouldn't be too time consuming to figure out, if you're using FireBug. Bring up the html inspector view, and select one of the quick launch items - from there you can navigate all the active CSS styles for the specific cell. You can even modify the styles directly through Firebug, and thus test drive changes without reloading the page.

Hope this helps.

I simply want to style (change the background to t...

2009-07-08T11:33:31.432+02:00

I simply want to style (change the background to transparent) the subnav items on my QuickLaunch menu. I have changed ms-navitem like this:
table.ms-navitem td,span.ms-navitem{
background:transparent;
}
but it doesn't work, the backgroundcolor of the subnav items changed to White.
Do I need to change "zz2_QuickLaunchMenu"?