[Design Pattern] Sliding Date Picker

[John Norman]

It's relatively easy to imagine applications in an interface like  
Simile Timeline (http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/)

John

On 24 Jan 2008, at 15:25, 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> wrote:
> Here is a great date picker design pattern. It's worth playing  
> around with.
>
> http://ajaxorized.com/introducing-the-sliding-date-picker/
>
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> Eli Cochran
> user interaction developer
> ETS, UC Berkeley
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