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

[Reed Wade]

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It's well worth considering a whole hog shift to the jQuery UI widgets
throughout.

-reed



On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Reed Wade <reedwade at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>