[Design Pattern] Sliding Date Picker

[Eric Dalquist]

For an example of something like this on a commercial site: 
http://finance.google.com/finance?q=.DJI%20.IXIC%20.INX They use it for 
exactly what you're thinking, a way to select a range of dates. Also the 
Simile project at MIT uses something similar as a data display 
technology: http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/ (they have lots of fun stuff 
to play with on that site).

-Eric

Jonathan Hung wrote:
> Interesting!
>
> I was trying to think of an application for thus component since I 
> have never seen it used in commercial software I've used. But after 
> some thought I think this kind of UI component would be great for 
> filtering data in a table or list.
>
> Not only useful for filtering dates, you can also filter textual data 
> as well such as names (select the "Student Name" column of and filter 
> for only names beginning with E to G), and filtering for numerical 
> values ( i.e. filter images in the Gallery that have pixel width 
> between 800 to 1280 pixels, thus filtering out anything larger because 
> it won't fit nicely into the screen). This would imply that the slider 
> would dynamically change what it is filtering depending on what column 
> is selected in the table.
>
> I think the greatness lies in applications beyond dates, but help 
> filter data that is in a sequential order.
>
>
>
> On 23/01/2008, *Eli Cochran* <eli at media.berkeley.edu 
> <mailto:eli at media.berkeley.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Here is a great date picker design pattern. It's worth playing
>     around with.
>
>     http://ajaxorized.com/introducing-the-sliding-date-picker/
>
>
>
>
>     . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .            
>      .                     .
>
>     Eli Cochran
>     user interaction developer
>     ETS, UC Berkeley
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