Lately, we can read some information about the next version of Sharepoint. Especially Mike Fitzmaurice talks about it now and then. He points at some technical detailes like CAML, Frontpage RPC and the Sharepoint 2003 webpart compatibility. Great new of course, but I haven't heard anything yet from changes to the Sharepoint design and HTML. On this area there is a lot to achieve:
- CSS - a proper and consistent use of CSS classes. Right now, classes are missing, used twice on different UI elements or the same UI element have different classes! It's a real mess!
- HTML - The HTML on Sharepoint sites is nasty as well. Inconsistent use of quotes, invalid HTML and wierd constuctions. (lots of examples)
- Design options - Right now, there are several CSS classes. Sharepoint Portal is quite easy to customize, with pointing to a custom CSS in the general property page. However, WSS sites is a totally different story. When changing the OWS.CSS, the portal inherits these changes. Themes are an option ofcourse on this one, but even then, styles are very hard to implement. Frontpage isn't an option, because it only edits one page a time, there are hunderds of underlying pages as well to edit. These pages are mostly messed up when changing the CSS files.
Of course, we've done lots of customizations, but even after all these projects styles are still an issue. So, please, make it better in v3! :) Does anyone have some info on this?