totally. brion is a minimal code monster! +1
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 4:00 PM, Mark <grim...@mitsein.net> wrote: > KISS. I'm with brion. > > On 12/29/09, Brion Vibber <br...@status.net> wrote: >> While looking at our preferences, I noticed we have a fairly generic but >> unfriendly timezone selector, done as a drop-down box with a raw list of >> zone names -- this makes you find and select something like >> "America/Los_Angeles" or "Asia/Tokyo". >> >> Not only is the list very long and confusingly sorted, but the names are >> all either English or acronyms, making it hard to internationalize. >> >> It occurs to me that we very rarely actually output formatted dates in >> the web interface anyway... most of the time we output relative times >> like "a few seconds ago" or "3 months ago". >> >> >> In fact, about the only place I can see that we're outputting a fully >> formatted date is on an individual notice like this: >> >> http://identi.ca/notice/15645070 >> "Brion Vibber (brionv) 's status on Friday, 27-Nov-09 19:19:11 UTC" >> "Brion Vibber (brionv) 's status on Friday, 27-Nov-09 11:19:11 PST" >> etc >> >> though we also have tooltips on the approximation eg "about a month >> ago": "2009-11-27T11:19:11-08:00" >> >> >> My own inclination would be to drop the timezone preferences entirely; >> in the rare cases where we output a formatted local date we can let >> client-side JavaScript do the actual date formatting with the client >> system's actual time zone and language settings, with a UTC/GMT fallback >> for clients with JS disabled. >> >> This drops an unnecessary and hard-to-select option field from >> preferences and site administration panels, and avoids inconsistencies >> when you travel or move and forget to update the timezone. >> >> Any objections or suggestions for further refinement? >> >> -- brion vibber (brion @ status.net) >> _______________________________________________ >> StatusNet-dev mailing list >> StatusNet-dev@lists.status.net >> http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev >> > > -- > Sent from my mobile device > > -- > Mark > "Blessed is he who finds happiness in his own foolishness, for he will > always be happy." > _______________________________________________ > StatusNet-dev mailing list > StatusNet-dev@lists.status.net > http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ +1.415.830.3884 (sf/global) +86.134.3957.2035 (china) Sent from San Francisco, CA, United States _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list StatusNet-dev@lists.status.net http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
