Seems that this use case is something that should be configurable.
While in most cases (the default) setting times in the past are
illegal, I can think of one case where the past is relevant, using the
date picker in a timeline application.
- Eli
On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:31 AM, Justin wrote:
Would it also make sense, not to allow the user to move backwards in
time, that is prevent them from choosing a month or year that is
before the open date. This won't help with days in the same month
but it may help if they go back a month or year by accident and are
confused because it is all the same colour.
- Justin
On 4-Feb-09, at 9:11 AM, Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
On 3-Feb-09, at 2:53 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:
3) We haven't come up with a great design solution to strongly
distinguish non-selectable dates (e.g. when entering a Due Date
for an assignment, dates *before* the Open Date shouldn't be
selectable) and dates in the previous month.
In some date pickers I've seen that distinguish between pickable
and non-pickable dates (e.g. hotel room availability), the
distinction is made with green and red coloured backgrounds. I've
always found that to be pretty obvious, given our existing common
associations with those colours. They could probably be combined
with grey vs. black foreground colours for the month distinctions?
You'd probably have to play with shading, etc., and I do see that
you already use background colours to distinguish weekdays from
weekends, but maybe it's an idea to start with?
--
Anastasia Cheetham [email protected]
Software Designer, Fluid Project http://fluidproject.org
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre / University of Toronto
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