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Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by wuliwong »

yuchi wrote: post #165
Kip9000 wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know, but users without touchpad had zoom functionality (like ctrl+wheel or ctrl+scroll) for years. Don't get me wrong I like the zoomability of a calendar, it is an excellent way to visualise information.

Managing both is very difficult, at least until we get pointer events supported ( http://caniuse.com/#feat=pointer )

I'm confused by what is difficult. In this case I would make the UX allow the native scroll trigger to operate and then add a zoom trigger. If you make the zoom triggers to be both ctrl+click and two finger pinch then it will work across all devices (ie. mobile/desktop/touchpad/mouse).

I agree that it will be great to be able to target touch pads or mouse/keyboards but I believe it is pretty simple to fix the UX on this app.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by jordanlev »

petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

Very cool -- nice work!

If I want to actually use this thing, how does it persist data? Is there a way to create an account, or do I have to never ever clear my browser cookies (or localStorage)? Accessing across different devices? Etc. (Not sure if this is just a UI proof of concept or an actual app you expect people to use).

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by odbol_ »

jere wrote: post #166

Nice! I had a very similar idea, which I made a small prototype for in a HCI course (click on the logo to get test data): http://humbit.com/longcal/ The vision I had was a horizontal rather than vertical timeline and discrete rather than continuous zooming (though I thought a lot about implementing continuous scrolling). Yours might be the better way to do it, at least for mobile. In any case, I think existing calend…

This is why I use Google calendar in the special "4 week view". Always shows the current day at the top so do you only looking at the future.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by bcherny »

dorianm wrote: post #174
yuchi wrote: post #151

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As I said in another comment, I was developing something incredibly similar many years ago. I really believe it’s the best UI for a calendar. I hope to help you somehow, I opensourced that small thing I built then: https://bitbucket.org/yuchi/dirt-testing-1 It’s written in Coffee Script (sorry, it was all the rage in 2012) but if you create an HTTP server in the root of the project everything should work out of the b…

CoffeeScript is still popular today even if it's not as "hyped" as it used to.

Unfortunately the CoffeeScript project seems to be in maintenance mode, and hasn't had a release for ~9 months.

Probably something to do with the ad hoc compiler and lack of ES6 support.

See https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor...

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by wuliwong »

bcherny wrote: post #185
dorianm wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CoffeeScript is still popular today even if it's not as "hyped" as it used to.

Unfortunately the CoffeeScript project seems to be in maintenance mode, and hasn't had a release for ~9 months. Probably something to do with the ad hoc compiler and lack of ES6 support. See https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor...

Wow that's crazy. I saw your comment and thought "no way." I'm not the most tied into open source development but it is very surprising to me that something that is so embedded inside Rails is not being actively developed. I wonder if Rails is going to move away from it now as it probably should anyway?

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by rev_bird »

bcherny wrote: post #185
dorianm wrote: post #174

Earlier quoted context omitted.

CoffeeScript is still popular today even if it's not as "hyped" as it used to.

Unfortunately the CoffeeScript project seems to be in maintenance mode, and hasn't had a release for ~9 months. Probably something to do with the ad hoc compiler and lack of ES6 support. See https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor...

This is such a bummer to me. I was a late-comer to CoffeeScript (just joined a project at a company that's been using it for years), and I absolutely love it. I was really skeptical ("JavaScript works just fine! Why change the syntax for no reason?"), but it's so slick.

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by bcherny »

rev_bird wrote: post #187
bcherny wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately the CoffeeScript project seems to be in maintenance mode, and hasn't had a release for ~9 months. Probably something to do with the ad hoc compiler and lack of ES6 support. See https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/graphs/contributor...

This is such a bummer to me. I was a late-comer to CoffeeScript (just joined a project at a company that's been using it for years), and I absolutely love it. I was really skeptical ("JavaScript works just fine! Why change the syntax for no reason?"), but it's so slick.

Same here. Personally I prefer ES6 for a few reasons:

- Future compatible, more interoperable

- ES6 classes can extend each other in a standards compliant way

- CS arrow functions feel verbose compared to ES6

- Constants

- More tooling support

- More features

- Upcoming features, like ES7 async/await have polyfills that you can use today (as opposed to CS - https://github.com/jashkenas/coffeescript/pull/3813)

Though I do miss a couple of things:

- The last expression in a block is implicitly returned (nice sugar for functional programming)

- Ranges ([1..10])

Re: Show HN: New calendar app idea

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Post by karmakaze »

wuliwong wrote: post #178
petermolyneux wrote: post #3

Hi all. Just wanted to show you my latest side project (been working on it for a couple of years now). It's a calendar app with a twist. It's developed as a web app, thats wy it could be integrated directly on the landing page. It can also be run on any device directly from http://app.oneviewcalendar.com Instead of the traditional monthview and day view I have used a timeline that is zoomable and scrollable. Give it…

Really cool. I'd love to hear about what technologies you used and what issues you encountered in getting it to the fast/smooth state it is today. Really great work, thanks.

The demo is great. I hope that the tech used to make the demo is also used in the app to reduce duplication of effort and make the two more similar than different.

UX preference: I would rather swipe sideways to scroll between days preserving time of day than scroll vertically through 24h to get to yesterday/tomorrow.

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