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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by jay_v[/i] [br]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?< [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.