Date widget

Thu Jan 3 05:21:08 UTC 2008

Hi - really glad to see Fluid is preparing to devote some design cycles
to this widget!
Directing all towards the original requirements page for the date
widget started by Kathy:

http://confluence.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/RES/Date+widget+improvements

You can see all the discussion there, and also try out the templates
for my implementation which is still up at

http://ponder.org.uk/RSFComponents-test/faces/test-components-index

You can grab the markup for the templates at

http://ponder.org.uk/RSFComponents-templates/content/templates/yahoo-date.html

to be used in any design work that you would like to do from here.

Probably the biggest work that would need to be done to make this
widget usable in the other display technologies would be to rewrite
the logic used for handling user timezones onto the client side
rather than the server so that we can save on AJAX trips. Although
we could do without this by just deploying a single "standard widget"
webapp into Sakai this would be a bit awkward.

Another issue seems to be that many locales (Denmark, South Africa, etc.)
are complaining that the standard JDK locale information is not correct
for them. We need to think about some architecture for overriding/patching
this, hopefully in a scheme that is not too Sakai-specific.

Cheers,
Antranig.

Quoting Daphne Ogle <daphne at media.berkeley.edu>:

> Sounds like a great idea Kristol!  I'd say go for it.  Should we
> create a new confluence space for this work or is there an existing
> one (that I can't find) that we should use?
>
> -Daphne
>
> On Jan 2, 2008, at 11:15 AM, Hancock, Kristol J wrote:
>
> > Hey guys!  I have a new hourly designer that has some time on her
> > hands right now and this may be a good project for her to get her
> > feet wet with Sakai.  Let me know what you think.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Kristol
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Daphne Ogle [mailto:daphne at media.berkeley.edu]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 1:57 PM
> > To: Harriet Truscott
> > Cc: 'Sakai UI UI'; fluid-work at fluidproject.org
> > Subject: Re: Date widget
> >
> > Sounds like a wild and crazy New Year Harriet! :)
> >
> > A date widget component is not currently on the radar for Fluid.  It
> > would sure be great to decide on an accessible and usable widget that
> > we consistently use in Sakai.  I've lost track of where and which
> > ones are used at this point.  Would it help if we put together a
> > little project to identify how and where we use various date pickers
> > now?  Then we could do UX Walkthroughs and technical feasibility to
> > assess the various ones in use?  I don't have a ton of time right now
> > but am willing to work with others on this a bit if there are other
> > takers.
> >
> > -Daphne
> >
> > On Jan 2, 2008, at 3:36 AM, Harriet Truscott wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all
> >>
> >> I'm celebrating the new year by going through my JIRA items, and
> >> I've come
> >> across
> >>
> >> HYPERLINK http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-11688
> >> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-11688 , i.e. "Replace
> >> date
> >> widget in Resources"
> >>
> >> Where are we up to on the whole date widget business? Is Fluid
> >> working on
> >> developing a lovely new date widget? Has a lovely new date widget
> >> (i.e. the
> >> one used in Polls) been developed? If so, is this only for use in
> >> RSF tools?
> >>
> >> HYPERLINK http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-7000
> >> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/jira/browse/SAK-7000
> >>
> >> Happy New Year, everyone!
> >>
> >> Harriet
> >>
> >>
> >>
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