Apologies in advance for the cross-posting -- but there are some
technical issues in addition to the design ones. Perhaps the technical
part of the discussion should continue on the dev list.
I think the Dojo Date Picker looks great, given a few conditions I think
are pretty important to verify:
1. It doesn't come with a bunch of extra dependencies
2. It doesn't require a large number of graphics to be downloaded --
we're working hard to reduce the number of images, and don't need to be
dumping a bunch more on the pile
2. It performs and looks the same (within reason) across all our
supported browsers
3. It exists and is maintained in Dojo 0.9
4. Maintaining our customizations between the 0.4.x version and the
0.9/1.0 version won't take longer than building our own
If all that stuff looks good, then we should go for it. It would be nice
to get all the functionality without doing it ourselves, but I want to
make sure it doesn't turn into an albatross.
Matthew
Mimi Yin wrote:
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8396
I am going to move this discussion over to the design list as we are
definitely in design territory now. (Thread on Cosmo list:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/004860.html)
Bobby showed me the dojo date picker and I think with some tweaks, it'd
be a good add-on. (I think ultimately we still want better data
validation and/or natural language parsing so that users can use the
quick entry field to schedule events, etc...but this looks like a lower
cost, more immediate solution to the problem of entering dates.)
I think however we want invest in a few workflow tweaks and customize
the picker widget a bit.
1. Auto-fill the date/time fields with today's date:
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10962
2. Add the date/time picker to the detail view *and* the go-to-date field.
3. Get rid of the AM/PM radio buttons in the detail view (yayy!!)
4. Mimi to specify CSS improvements to date picker widget
5. Make it so date picker automatically drops down when user clicks into
date/time field (IOW, no date picker icon!)
6. Increase the default font-size
7. Get rid of the extra (small arrow) navigation
8. Make it possible for the user to manually edit the date/time fields
Given all of this work, not sure where this functionality should land in
the schedule. It seems like at the very least, we can do #1 right away?
Here's the screenshot Bobby sent me of the date picker as it is by default:
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Mimi
On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:
On 10/3/07, Aparna Kadakia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am in the habit of taking quick notes and then stamping those as
events and tasks as needed.
me too. every calendar system i use has some variant of the quick
entry field. of course, most of those let me type dates and times into
the quick entry field, but i could live without that if adding the
dates and times in the DV wasn't so horrible.
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