[Design] [D/f] Background for current week

[John Townsend]

I like that!

--> John

On Mar 17, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Alec Flett wrote:

>
>>
>> Did anyone else had a similar experience?
>>
> I have this, even as an infrequent user...
>> So here's an idea : have a special background (not too crude but  
>> visible enough to be identified) in the calendar canvas for the  
>> current week.
>>
> Here's kind of a wacky idea - what if the week "name" was sort of  
> watermarked onto the background in very large (i.e. 50pt font)  
> light grey text? We could center it no matter where the window was  
> actually scrolled to. See attached... I don't know if the week name  
> would be "This week" or "3/12 - 3/18" or what.. if we want to get  
> fancy, we could even make next week say "Next week" and last week  
> say "Last week"
>
> The only bummer would be that for busy calendars the watermarking  
> would obviously be mostly obscured.
>
> not sure if its a good final idea, but perhaps mimi can come up  
> with a variation that makes more sense. :)
>
> Alec
> <watermark-week.png>
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