Office UI Fabric by Microsoft

I like the Best practices, for example button <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.office.com&#x2F;fabric#&#x2F;components&#x2F;button" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dev.office.com&#x2F;fabric#&#x2F;components&#x2F;button</a><p><i>Do<p>Make sure the label conveys a clear purpose of the button to the user.<p>Button labels must describe the action the button will perform and should include a verb. Use concise, specific, self-explanatory labels, usually a single word.<p>Buttons should always include a noun if there is any room for interpretation about what the verb operates on.<p>...<p>Don’t<p>Don&#x27;t use generic labels like &quot;Ok,&quot; especially in the case of an error; errors are never &quot;Ok.&quot;<p>Don’t place the default focus on a button that destroys data. Instead, place the default focus on the button that performs the &quot;safe act&quot; and retains the content (i.e. &quot;Save&quot;) or cancels the action (i.e. &quot;Cancel&quot;).<p></i><p>Pity that MS doesn&#x27;t always follow them...

I always get infuriated by custom UI components, because they are <i>always</i> poorly implemented for keyboard accessibility. <i>Always.</i> I have never met an exception. Seriously, is it <i>that</i> hard to copy the platform behaviour for keypresses, <i>&amp;c.</i>? Sure, some of the details vary by platform, but it shouldn’t be difficult to get the vast majority of it right. Especially for Windows, given Fabric’s primary target.<p>Fabric is still no exception, though I find it better than the alternatives in almost everything.<p>(The menu bar component that seems to be used with Electron apps is extremely irritating in its keyboard handling: left and right arrow keys don’t let you switch between menus like they should.)

It took me a while to understand what this is and I am still not sure. IT seems like a CSS&#x2F;JS component framework like Bootstrap but themed based on Microsoft Office design language? Is there any other relation to Office other than that?

It is really frustrating to develop Office 365 Apps (pretty limited APIs) so I don&#x27;t understand why they are not spending more resources on the API rather than the UI aspect. It seems like Microsoft is an unconnected company without cohesion.<p>For example, you cannot have an event that notifies you when a new e-mail arrives... and this issue is only the beginning.

I would drop the fade effects if I were MS. I can&#x27;t be the only one who notices how bad most &quot;effects&quot; look in the browser. It reminds me even more that I&#x27;m not in a native platform.

When making UWP apps with web tech, should Fabric be considered a successor for WinJS, a good technology to use? Sure, it’s designed for Office UI, but there’s rather a lot of overlap in it with Windows design guidelines.<p>Perhaps a variant of it? It’d be good if Microsoft made the situation clear.

This is pretty snazzy. Looks like they&#x27;re taking bootstrap concepts a step further with implementations for varying platforms. It&#x27;s clean and simple design. I dig it.

Still trying to figure out how to add a simple function to Excel. This is an old attempt at adding a function `double` that doubles it&#x27;s argument. <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalx.net&#x2F;ExcelUDF.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kalx.net&#x2F;ExcelUDF.html</a> Seems to no longer work.

hmmm... looks interesting. I&#x27;ve struggled with quirks of frameworks implementing Material UI in React - I&#x27;m guessing mainly because the frameworks don&#x27;t have a large company supported team. Will try this out.

Does it have a progress bar component that goes backward like in Windows :) ?

&gt; &quot;Community-driven project with for Angular apps&quot;<p>Grammar.

Yay, large attack surface!

So nowadays VBA is replaced with ES6 and React?

Still no cure for VBA though.<p>Hah!