Best design practices for presenting Domino views on the Web
by Kenneth Haggman


from THE VIEW, January/February 2007, Volume 13, Issue 1


Exploit proven techniques to achieve the best presentation and performance of existing Notes views in a browser — without duplicating or changing the view presentations in Notes clients. Deepen your knowledge of how Domino renders Notes views for the Web and discover the Web design pitfalls that result in unattractive or slow view renderings. This article explains top techniques for Web-enabling simple and complex Notes views that achieve the fastest presentation with minimal server strain. It shows how to speed up the Web-enabling process with a JavaScript library for rendering styled Notes views in a browser and a Style Sheet Creator tool for automatically generating CSS style sheets for existing Notes views. The tools and examples are available for download at THE VIEW Web site.



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This file includes a sample database that includes the demonstration views and the JS library (viewdemo.nsf) and a database that includes the CSS-generating tool (StyleSheetCreator.nsf).


DominoViews.zip