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

[Ian Walls]

Owen,


I can't see any compelling reason not to make the switch.  Thanks for laying
it out clearly for us!


-Ian

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:

> 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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