On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 2:21:16 PM UTC-7, Leonel Câmara wrote: > > People use pretty dates like "20 minutes ago" because they're prettier and > easier for humans. A better solution than using a simple date instead of a > pretty one is to continuously update the prettydate. Something you can > easily accomplish using javascript. >
I don't mind the pretty date being updated, but I still want to be able to find the date loaded AS WELL. Pretty dates work well if you also provide the "anchor" (semantic anchor, not html anchor) for them. > > In fact, reddit does it. If you notice the submission date in the comments > keeps being updated. I have implemented a similar solution to reddit for a > web2py application using ractive. > > Here is the javascript prettydate function I used. > > Thanks for providing this. There are places where I'll find this useful, but I'll also provide a "last updated" field somewhere visible. /dps -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
