Hi Greg,
Yes, I can see lots of use cases where more flexibility around
defining what weeks you see at a time would be important. You should
be able to add and subtract weeks depending on what you're doing,
essentially zooming in and out of the calendar.
I imagine our first pass at the month view will be pretty basic, but
what you're describing is definitely a good direction to head in.
Mimi
On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
I'm forwarding the following suggestion from Greg Noel:
Begin forwarded message:
From: Greg Noel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: September 25, 2007 6:36:03 PM PDT
To: Mimi Yin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Design] Month View and Overlays
On Sep 24, 2007, at 11:01 AM, you wrote:
Month View for Desktop and Web applications and Overlays for the
Web has come up ... they are definitely on the short list of
feature enhancements to be implemented as soon as possible.
May I put in a bid for a mixed weekly/monthly view? It would be
far more useful than either a weekly or monthly view in isolation.
It goes like this: In the worst case, the month view has to have
six rows. The view I want looks like a month view with six rows,
except that I want to combine three of those rows into something
else. It may only be usable on a bigger screen, but for those of
us who have one (I have a Macintosh Cinema Display), it would be a
boon.
The initial row is "last week" then the next three rows are a
compressed "weekly" view. The last two rows are then "next week"
and "the week after next." I find that I rarely look at any other
times: I might look back to the prior week to remind myself about
something, and I'm almost always scheduling events within the next
three weeks, so this view would cover 99-44/100 percent of the
times I have to deal with.
If you are careful when you build the month view, all the pieces
would be available, so implementing this view should be simple.
And if my use pattern is common (which I think it is), I suspect
you'll find that it's the most common view by far.
Tks,
-- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru
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