Tiny calendars look nice on a home page, but they have one drawback: their small size doesn’t allow to display events.
In a previous post, I proposed two ways to deal with this issue, one being to include a zooming effect on the text.
Then last week I discovered anythingZoomer, a jQuery plugin that allows to add a zooming effect to any Web content (well, just as it says). It seemed like the perfect solution for my tiny calendar, so I decided to give it a try. You can see the result on this page:
http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/Calendars/Pages/CalendarZoom.aspx
This first attempt looks promising. I like the fact that the zoom keeps the clickable parts of the calendar. You can for example move to the next or previous month, or select a specific event.
There are still some issues though. In particular the zoomed view is not correctly aligned with the small view. To be continued…
Hi Christophe
This is excellent – it looks perfect to me.
One comment though on the colour coding, it needs to be a contrasting colour to see it clearly. The green entries are hard to read.
Iain
Christophe – Definitely worth pursuing. Potentially nice solution. — Mark
Hi Christ,
I found your site several weeks ago, which is one of the best resources that I’ve found yet. But today I cannot access to your SharePoint example site, http://www.pathtosharepoint.com/default.aspx. Will it be open again? Thanks a lot.
Vivian, the url to his site does not contain www, it should be http://pathtosharepoint.com/Calendars/Pages/CalendarZoom.aspx
HTH
Dean
Doesn’t work in FF 3.5.2 I am afraid.