Telerik blogs
  • Web

    Implementing the Layout Guidelines in WinJS

    In this post I show you how to quickly add the correct HTML/CSS to adhere to Microsoft's Layout Guidelines for Windows Store Applications.
    February 04, 2013
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Browser Zoom - Why Does It Break Your Page And How To Avoid It

    The current situation The major browsers offer the option to zoom the entire page rather than just increase the font size. This is an important accessibility feature, which is often used not only by people with vision impairments, but also by users that, for different reasons, need to see the page smaller or larger. Usually we zoom to increase the font size but, since the browser zooms the entire page, visual glitches could appear when the layout is based on background images and/or sprites. It will not ruin the page accessibility but will leave a feeling that the UI is not structured very well. And we don’t want...
    November 05, 2012
  • Design

    CSS Tip: Star Selector Not That Bad

    While working on some projects recently, I found myself frequently writing CSS rules like this to enable CSS3 hardware accelerated "fade" transitions for elements in my app: .mySelector {    -webkit-transition: opacity 1s linear 0s;    transition: opacity 1s linear 0s; } When this rule is applied, any change to an element's opacity...
    September 28, 2012
  • Desktop WinForms

    Put some CSS magic to your RadControls for WinForms

    We keep a close track of the latest trends and we know how popular HTML5 and CSS are these days. That is why while implementing our new theme engine, which we presented in our previous blog, we added a small, but powerful styling feature  and in this blog we want to tell you more about it.   Until now there were two ways to create new themes for RadControls. The first one is to use the Visual Style Builder tool (http://www.telerik.com/products/winforms/tools.aspx) and to create or modify an existing theme. The other way is a bit tricky as you should edit an XML...
  • Web ASP.NET AJAX

    Touch up your app with Telerik’s MetroTouch skin for ASP.NET AJAX

    Have you ever experienced difficulties with hitting a button on a touch screen because of the button’s small size? Haven’t you wished texts were larger so you don’t need to zoom-in to read? No more troubles - our new MetroTouch skin for Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls is coming on board with Q2 2012, expected in about a week!