Date picker progress (was Re: Please review updates to the progress indicators)

[Colin Clark]

Hey all,

Some thoughts occurred to me while reading through the conversations  
about date picker progress and Lovemore potentially lending a hand  
with its development:

I think it's a good idea to not put too fine a point on this idea of  
Date Picker being "out of design." In the natural life cycle of our  
components, we tend to go through several design phases. We sketch  
something early, implement, and keep the design process going  
throughout. Jess, Daphne, and Michelle all collaborated to make these  
drawings of how our process works, and Jess is planning to rework the  
page soon:

http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Design+and+Development+Process

Lovemore, we've got an awesome opportunity to kick start this process  
if you're willing to try out some coding for Date Picker. This will  
definitely be a back-and-forth process, and you'll undoubtedly get  
support from the community as we go.

With that in mind, Date Picker inevitably still has a lot of design  
work left to be done. I think it's clear that we're going to want to  
delve more deeply into the really core issues--internationalization  
and accessibility--before we're done designing this one.

We've created a lot of good refinements to the familiar date picker  
idiom, but I think there's more to be done before it can really make  
its mark as a Fluid component. Again, this is a natural part of the  
process: date and time picking are hard problems, and we're going to  
need to keep delving deeper and designing as we go.

Let's get started!

Colin

On 25-Feb-09, at 3:47 PM, Allison Bloodworth wrote:

> Hey Justin,
>
> Erin and I just went through & updated the Date Picker Progress  
> Indicator. We realized that we may want to consider having another  
> status for our 'carrot' components...out of design, but not yet in  
> development. I put an idea for what this could look like (with a new  
> 'Ready for Development' status) on the Date Picker Progress  
> Indicator page: http://wiki.fluidproject.org/display/fluid/Progress+Indicator+-+Date+Picker 
> , but feel free to change it. I think if we keep this format, we may  
> want to make the "In Design" color a bit more orange. What do folks  
> think?
>
> Also, I was noticing that the background color for "Future" at the  
> top of the page (sortuv beige) didn't match the color for it in the  
> legend (white). In the "Legend" section it just needed a ";" after  
> the hex code (style="background:#FFFDE3;") to make it work properly  
> and match, so I just fixed all of them.
>
> I'll go through the Inline Edit Progress Indicators with Daphne when  
> she gets back if it's OK to wait 'til then.
>
> Cheers,
> Allison

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Colin Clark
Technical Lead, Fluid Project
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto
http://fluidproject.org