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| jay_v |
Posted - 23 May 2008 : 23:16:28
The current calendar mod is great, and clearly a lot of effort has been put into it. I just have a few problems with it:
1. It generates too many pages. Every new calendar day is a new page (cal.asp?date=5/23/2008, cal.asp?date=5/24/2008, cal.asp?date=5/25/2008, etc), so search engine bots crawling through each one of them will sap your bandwidth dry.
2. The interface is too old. Every calendar operation refreshes the entire page. In today's AJAXy world, a calendar app should only update what needs updating, thus also saving bandwidth.
3. The way it selects recurring dates is rather awkward. There's a great javascript datepicker here (http://www.zapatec.com/website/main/products/prod1/demo.jsp#example7.html) that allows selection of multiple dates, eliminating the current mod's clunky way of selecting recurring dates. Yahoo UI also has a great calendar widget here (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/calendar/). Unfortunately I'm not savvy enough to implement these.
I guess my complaints are mostly for the front-end of the calendar from a user's point of view. The current calendar mod is very functional, but the user-interface needs to be upgraded.
Anyone want to give it a go?< |
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