I have a newer blog post about MDS, that provides a much simpler solution. Please check it before reading further. This is a part 1 of the blog post about Minimal Download Strategy and javascript adjustments for user code. What I initially thought should be enough for one post, is not enough, so I see it as a part 1. I wrote this post after I had read Chris O’Brien’s post about JSLink Here I want investigate how we can get his accordion list view working with MDS.

Angular JS is one of the most developed MVC frameworks in the javascript world. Angular UI is a huge UI-centric extension of AngularJS (it is more or less like jQuery UI to the jQuery). It uses much jQuery UI and Twitter Bootstrap and provides many own components like modal dialogs, maps, tooltips, masked inputs and much more. And all this is easy to implement in your code just by adding a directive: [sourcecode language=“html”][/sourcecode] Much cleaner than listening on $(document).

Referencing javascript libraries from Content Delivery Networks (CDN) like jQuery can have many benefits. The self-hosted javascript files are on the other hand give you more control. But in one situation it is much better with cdns: the development. Like Marc D Anderson pointed: I didn’t realize it at the time, but this txt file has become a standard part of my toolkit already. I’ve added it to three client environments just since last week.

As an alternative to asp:Calendar we can use the fancy jQuery UI Datepicker: $(document).ready(function () { $.datepicker.setDefaults($.datepicker.regional\["sv"\]); $("#").datepicker({ changeMonth: true, changeYear: true, yearRange: "-120:+0" }); }); ```I found this a much simple and best solution for an [birthdate input](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/339956/whats-the-best-ui-for-entering-date-of-birth). We can set [international options](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1865091/jquery-datepicker-language-problem), [year range](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/269545/jquery-datepicker-years-shown), [year](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3164898/jquery-ui-datepicker-next-and-previous-year) and [month navigation](http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/dropdown-month-year.html). Other options I have tried are asp:Calendar, ajaxtoolkit:CalendarExtender and DateJs. jQuery UI is the most simple much more than datepicker and works smoothily with SharePoint.