Woohoo!! Finally released the next generation of DateBocks (aka
DateBox) v2.0.0.
This was a long time coming, after its initial version release allll
the way back in January, this is a nice edition to the popular tool I
released before.
This version is chalked full of features. Here is the cut out from the
CHANGELOG
== 2.0.0 - AUGUST 16, 2006
Changed name from DateBox to DateBocks
Added dependency for Prototype
First major release after much feedback
Renamed main method to datebocks_field
Removed datebocks_flat
Added new features
- Close help popup window clicking on any part of the popup
- German format dd.mm.yyyy
- Be able to have more than one DateBocks on a page
- Added Next or Last Week, Month, and Year (ex. Next Month or
Last Year)
- (monday|tuesday|wednesday|thursday|friday|saturday|sunday) -
Defaults to next defined week day
- Added support for mm-dd-yyyy
- Added now for date
- Now able to use model, method to instantiate a datebox_field
[Michael M. ]
- Always display with 2 characters in length for month and day
Bug fixes
- 1st of Jan[uary]
- Errors now highlight elements properly
- Major bug with the enter key to update the date and not post
the entire form
- Fixed bug for special days where it
- Fixed bug for using datebox_field in a partial [Reginald
Braithwaite ]
So with that said, do please check it out.
Oh, and I decided to spiff up the site a bit, and design my a fancy
new layout. It is inspired from a newsletter I got. Brownie points to
whoever guesses it
The company I work for has decided not to move to RoR (sigh) but this is
by far the best javascript calendar I’ve seen yet.
I see you have plans to eventually port it to other frameworks, but what
about just plain HTML? I’d like to be able to just slap it on a text
field and have it work. (With a little html, of course.)
CHANGELOG
Suggestion: Include a description of the software in the release
announcement. None of these change log items give me much of a clue
as to what DateBocks actually does or why I would bother following the
link you provided.
A shorter E-mail that described the software in one or two sentences,
with a link to the change log, might be better.
–
James B.
“Simplicity of the language is not what matters, but
simplicity of use.”
using firefox on linux, but no joy. i assume the little calender widget
is
supposed to open a larger calender pop up? am i the only one noticing
this?
Here Firefox 1.5 on Win 2k (whitelistet this page in adblock, javascript
and so on activated) also no joy. IE6 on same machine loves it and it
looks great.
using firefox on linux, but no joy. i assume the little calender widget
is
supposed to open a larger calender pop up? am i the only one noticing
this?
regards.
-a
Firefox 1.5 on Kubuntu here. Clicking on the little calendar icon, or
typing things and hitting enter, either works great for me. Have you
got any adblocks or javascript stoppers?
Firefox 1.5 on Kubuntu here. Clicking on the little calendar icon, or
typing things and hitting enter, either works great for me. Have you
got any adblocks or javascript stoppers?
nope. it’s quite strange. i actually have some other similar widgets
running
now - including the one for google calander. in any case it sounds like
it’s
somehow on my end - thanks.
Thanks for all the great feedback, other than the strange bugs going
around in various browsers/os’s.
I will see what I can find. If you have a sec please do try hacking
away and let me know what you come up with. I only have so many
workstations setup, and haven’t yet got Parrallells configured for all
the OS’s everyone mentioned it was buggy on.
I ask because I have an application (Ruby based) that uses an earlier
version of the dynarch calendar, and the appearance of DateBocks is
identical to that calendar (version 0.9.6).
