[Koha-devel] Seeking opinions on Koha's calendar widget

[Owen Leonard]

I would like to propose that we stop using the calendar widget which
is currently included with Koha and start using the jQuery UI version
at the same time that we incorporate jQuery UI into other areas of
Koha (see bug 5481 - Replace YUI JS libraries with Jquery UI
http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5481).

Some reasons:

- It's simpler to manage a single group of jQuery UI widgets than to
continue to maintain a separate set of files just for the calendar.
- jQueryUI is actively developed and packaged with Debian
- Our current calendar widget is not longer being developed under GPL.
The author asks $80 per domain for the current version.
- The current calendar widget uses now-deprecated CSS properties which
are causing problems in some browsers.

The jQueryUI calendar widget can be tested here:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/

The configuration which most closely approaches the version we use is this one:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#dropdown-month-year

Note that when we implement jQuery UI we will be creating a "theme"
for all jQuery UI widgets which will be consistent with Koha's colors.
In other words, it doesn't have to be orange :)

Can anyone suggest any reasons why we should not switch?

  -- Owen

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