On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 1 February 2012 09:58, Peter Vandenabeele <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I had experience that the typical administrative user, is _very_ fast at > > typing > > dates on her numeric keypad. It is really a lot easier for her to type a > > requested > > delivery_date as 300412 (that is delivery on 30 April 2012) even if we as > > developers frown upon it. Maybe a series of 3 boxes as you suggest > > may also be a good compromise. > > I agree that for what one might call an 'internal' app where users > know what is expected that a single box may be ok. Indeed ! That was an internal application. On the external side, we had a Datepicker (slower to use, but no ambiguity). > In the case of > three boxes then provided tab can be used between them this can still > be quick to type. > Or even jump to next box automatically (my banking app does that for the account number that has 3 blocks in Belgium). But the inconvenience is that I cannot copy paste a full account number to it then :-/ > > > > The protection against the problem of misinterpretation, is then to show > the > > fully expanded date (preferably with a local fast javascript), to verify > > that the > > computer interpreted the data correctly. And use localisation, where > users > > in > > EU get dd/mm/yyyy as default setting and users in US get mm/dd/yyyy as > > default input setting. > > The most safe way is possibly to provide a drop down select box for > the month then there is no confusion, but it is slower to enter. I > think date_select will provide this. > Of course there is no "correct" answer to this, different applications > require different solutions. > +1 Peter -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
