Comments on: New Twist on Date Pickers

By: johnmccollum

johnmccollum — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:19:08 +0000

Undoubtedly very cool, but there’s no way I’d ever use it on a production site. My instinct was to type dates into the boxes, which had no effect.

Still – nice job. :)

By: pennyfx54

pennyfx54 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:35:55 +0000

oops Ignore the previous comment.. Wrong topic.

By: pennyfx54

pennyfx54 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:34:08 +0000

I don’t understand why you would want to ever run javascript on the server side.

You can already do anything you want with PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, C++ etc on the server side. You have no limitations. You have ultimate control over the HTML on the server.

Plus, Anything dynamic on the client still has to be done on the client, otherwise you end up with a postback, hence the entire reason for javascript and AJAX.

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:02:10 +0000

The author did a great job of pushing the standard for what is possible with UI. I am not sure of a use case for this, but maybe it would be useful for an analytics application or something where you need a broad visual view what dates you are looking at. The ruler isn’t useful for precision date choosing, so it is necessary to provide the date fields below.

@Chris: The page is loading slow because the page is loading over 300KB worth of assets. I find that people start complaining when the total page weight is over 250KB, so if you are going to use this you should consider including feedback to the user while it is loading.

By: Kingsley2

Kingsley2 — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:57:09 +0000

Isn’t this exactly what the Google finance and analytics date pickers do? Props for execution though.

By: Chris Phillips

Chris Phillips — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:05:00 +0000

Very slow to load for me.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:35:11 +0000

Interesting idea and great for visualizing time ranges, but I can’t imagine using that with a track-pad given the 1-day-per-pixel resolution. I had a hard enough time with a normal mouse…

By: Marty

Marty — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:53:04 +0000

Pretty, but… ummm… no thanks.

By: Michael Mahemoff

Michael Mahemoff — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:35:12 +0000

Very nice. Would be great for flight/hotel bookings, with a few enhancements (e.g. show weekday). Could use vertical dimension for time of day.