Hi Greg,
I agree that we should display as much data as possible. This
proposal is mostly for expediency's sake because it's additional work
to figure out what to display if events span multiple days, some of
which are filled up with timed events and some of which are otherwise
empty.
We want to get some kind of month view out to users as quickly as
possible!
Mimi
On Oct 19, 2007, at 2:09 PM, Greg Noel wrote:
On Oct 18, 2007, at 1:35 PM, Mimi Yin wrote:
+ Limit all-day / anytime events to 2 per cell
+ Add ellipses above the all-day / anytime lozenges if there are
more than 2
I don't think this is a good idea. Typically, my calendar tends to
have timed events during the weekday, but untimed events during the
weekend. Forcing a hard limit (on either type) would limit the
number of things the calendar can show. There would have to be a
strategy for dealing with a day with too many events, but that
would happen less often if it was the sum of the timed and untimed
events together instead of separately.
As an example, look at iCal. It has untimed events in lozenges
above any timed events in plain text. There's no limit on either
until the day is completely full, at which point it uses a very
strange two-column display as a fallback.
Hope this helps,
-- Greg Noel, retired UNIX guru
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