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

[Reed Wade]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Galen Charlton <gmcharlt at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Owen Leonard <oleonard at myacpl.org> wrote:
>> Can anyone suggest any reasons why we should not switch?
>
> For the calendar widget qua date-picker, switching to the jQuery UI
> widget makes sense for the reasons you've mentioned.  I do have a
> question -- have you checked whether it can be made to work as a
> stand-alone calendar widget that is not tied to a form's input field,
> e.g., the way the current calendar widget is used on the holidays
> page?


I'd like to add my voice to the 'yes, definitely you want to switch'.

I've had a large project going that is eventually migrating from
exactly that old stinky calendar widget to the jQuery UI calendar
widget -- much more please to use from the user and developer ends.

The only issue we've had is the old stinky widget support time and
date setting so needed to handle time inputs separately.

Galen, it can be used inline and I suspect would work how you're thinking. See:
 http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#inline

-reed