One of the recent, relatively, developments for website content to be consumed by the mobile market (and tablet) is developing responsive pages. While I completely agree and see a need for this in custom application development, I struggle to see the application to SharePoint 2013 as a whole.
I would love feedback from all of you:
Architects: do you have worries about supporting a responsive designed Master Page for SharePoint 2013.
Designers: How would you handle things like Calendars, Large lists, dynamic content (wiki’s), etc. etc. etc.Â
Developers: Do you think the App Model could handle being responsive? What about trying to make your farm solutions UI be responsive?
End Users / Power Users: Would you even want SharePoint 2013 to be responsive? Â Would that confuse people even more when trying to use SharePoint in a mobile setting?
http://designmodo.com/responsive-design-examples/
I have some saying, which I agree with so far, that you can’t apply responsive design to the entirety of SharePoint 2013, you can have a Master Page that is responsive, and for Apps that want that ability for mobile use, you can apply that master page to wherever the app is located.
I’ve heard of companies around who are spending a lot of man hours to try to make this happen, and we are definitely going to have a Responsive Master Page, but I’m still thinking it can’t be done to the entire Farm successfully.
As an intern at a company, i have been able to implement up to 80% of the sharepoint intranet on a mobile platform, it’s quite possible to achieve this. There is even one book dedicated to this topic and i read it and applied most of the techniques http://www.apress.com/9781430250289 its quite a good read. Microsoft has started looking at this seriously because the issues between pages and sitepages is a big problem. Pages are easier to work with while sitepages are totally difficult (especially the layout becoming responsive)Â https://responsivesharepoint.codeplex.com/discussions/554165 and there is one website built totally on sharepoint that i know which is totally responsive. http://www.provokesolutions.com/
