I'm just curious to hear some thoughts about the usability of selecting your birthdate on a form. Unfortunately the date picker doesn't seem to be the best solution because of the year requirement, so that leaves a combo of a month/day/year drop down choices or a textfield looking for a specific date format.
While I would prefer a textfield because its easier to bind a value, and can be ajax validated immmediately, the disadvantage it has (besides requiring a specific format) is that different countries have different date formats, so it might be confusing for an internationlized form. Drop downs make it at little easier (but slower) for users, but has some technical disadvantages. For one its less friendly to use ajax validation since they need to select all 3 before we should show a validation error. (An onblur after the first drop down saying the date is invalid doesnt make much sense) And also we need to bind the values to three different objects and contruct a date later. Is there any sort of a GroupDropDownChoice that addresses this like there is for check boxes and radio buttons? I'd be interested to hear how people have handled something like this -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Usability-question-for-a-birthdate-DropDownChoice-tp20151779p20151779.html Sent from the Wicket - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
