[Cosmo-dev] Re: [Design] Re: [Cosmo] Date Picker

[Matthew Eernisse]

Apologies in advance for the cross-posting -- but there are some 
technical issues in addition to the design ones. Perhaps the technical 
part of the discussion should continue on the dev list.

I think the Dojo Date Picker looks great, given a few conditions I think 
are pretty important to verify:

1. It doesn't come with a bunch of extra dependencies
2. It doesn't require a large number of graphics to be downloaded -- 
we're working hard to reduce the number of images, and don't need to be 
dumping a bunch more on the pile
2. It performs and looks the same (within reason) across all our 
supported browsers
3. It exists and is maintained in Dojo 0.9
4. Maintaining our customizations between the 0.4.x version and the 
0.9/1.0 version won't take longer than building our own

If all that stuff looks good, then we should go for it. It would be nice 
to get all the functionality without doing it ourselves, but I want to 
make sure it doesn't turn into an albatross.


Matthew


Mimi Yin wrote:
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8396
> 
> I am going to move this discussion over to the design list as we are 
> definitely in design territory now. (Thread on Cosmo list: 
> http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/cosmo-dev/2007-October/004860.html) 
> 
> 
> Bobby showed me the dojo date picker and I think with some tweaks, it'd 
> be a good add-on. (I think ultimately we still want better data 
> validation and/or natural language parsing so that users can use the 
> quick entry field to schedule events, etc...but this looks like a lower 
> cost, more immediate solution to the problem of entering dates.)
> 
> I think however we want invest in a few workflow tweaks and customize 
> the picker widget a bit.
> 
> 1. Auto-fill the date/time fields with today's date: 
> https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10962
> 
> 2. Add the date/time picker to the detail view *and* the go-to-date field.
> 3. Get rid of the AM/PM radio buttons in the detail view (yayy!!)
> 4. Mimi to specify CSS improvements to date picker widget
> 5. Make it so date picker automatically drops down when user clicks into 
> date/time field (IOW, no date picker icon!)
> 6. Increase the default font-size
> 7. Get rid of the extra (small arrow) navigation
> 8. Make it possible for the user to manually edit the date/time fields
> 
> Given all of this work, not sure where this functionality should land in 
> the schedule. It seems like at the very least, we can do #1 right away?
> 
> Here's the screenshot Bobby sent me of the date picker as it is by default:
> 
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> Mimi
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> On Oct 3, 2007, at 5:27 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:
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>> On 10/3/07, Aparna Kadakia <aparna at osafoundation.org> wrote:
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>>> I am in the habit of taking quick notes and then stamping those as
>>> events and tasks as needed.
>>
>> me too. every calendar system i use has some variant of the quick
>> entry field. of course, most of those let me type dates and times into
>> the quick entry field, but i could live without that if adding the
>> dates and times in the DV wasn't so horrible.
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