[Design Pattern] Sliding Date Picker

[John Norman]

Apologies for exposing you all to the fact that I am way behind on  
emails and trying to catch up. Others have already pointed to Simile.

J

On 25 Jan 2008, at 16:00, John Norman wrote:

> 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/
>>
>>
>> <sliderscreenie.jpg>
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>> . . . . . . . . . . .  .  .   .    .      .         .              .
>>                    .
>>
>> Eli Cochran
>> user interaction developer
>> ETS, UC Berkeley
>>
>>
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>> Jonathan Hung / jonathan.hung at utoronto.ca
>> University of Toronto - ATRC
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