On Sun Mar 11 05:02:47 UTC 2007, Luke Melia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:51 AM, James Kebinger wrote: > > > I'm a bit late to chime in on this thread, but I think the problems > > with the calendar control and d/m vs m/d formatting can both be > > overcome. > > Before that though, I'm wondering about this timezone issue - why > > does timezone support matter to tracks, which appears to only > > support one timezone and has todos at day-level granularity? (heck, > > ruby barely supports timezones out of the box without the tzinfo > > project) > > True.
It matters on a per-user basis if people have Tracks on a remote server, which may be in different time zone. Different users might also be in different time zones, come to that. > > As for the interaction with the calendar control, how about > > configuring the calendar control to pop from a button next to the > > text field rather than when the focus is in the text field - that > > way people can use either date entry method? As in the way > > datebocks ( http://datebocks.inimit.com/ ) works. Or we could just > > use that now that I stumbled across it. (though it too seems to > > have issues with iso vs us date format) > > I do think supporting user-specified date formats is important, > especially considering that Tracks was born in the UK. 'Tracks: Born in the UK'. I like it and think it would look good on a T-shirt ;-) Seriously, yes, I do think user-specified dates are important, as being forced into US date formats is one thing that always puts me off when using web applications. > > Just some thoughts about possible solutions. The keyboard shortcuts > > that were proposed will work for some people, but they're pretty > > obscure :/ > > I suggest we target this for the 1.10 milestone. Agreed. cheers, bsag -- but she's a girl - the weblog of a female geek http://www.rousette.org.uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Tracks-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rousette.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/tracks-discuss
