Plans to include a time selector? about pikaday

[owenmead]

https://github.com/owenmead/Pikaday/

[dbushell]

Yes definitely! It will be on a forked version to avoid code bloat here and probably dependant on Moment.js

[mgibbs189]

Cool! Any initial ideas on the time selection UI?

jQuery UI Timepicker uses 2 sliders, which works well, but has a pretty heavy dependency footprint.

[dbushell]

I'm tentatively going to say within the next month! I made this to ultimately replace my use of jQuery UI date/time pickers.

[mgibbs189]

@dbushell - I was asking about the User Interface, not the ETA :)

I've seen everything from dropdowns to flyout menus to sliders, and I was just curious as to which direction you were going to take.

[dbushell]

@logikal16 ha oh right, must have assumed before reading!

Not thought about it yet, the sliders are nice but a bit fiddly to adjust. When I do some research I'll publish options in this thread. What's your preference?

[mgibbs189]

Sliders work best of all the options I've tried. There's definitely still room for improvement though.

I've been tossing around the idea of a joystick button. Dragging up/down to adjust hours, and left/right to adjust minutes.

[cemo]

+1 for time support.

[stas]

I'm willing to buy a beer/coffee for the first one who requests a pull on this.

Regarding sliders vs select fields: +1 for selects, sliders suck at precision. Having a field where developers can adjust the available time-frame is more than enough (say every hour, every 5 minute to be available as an option).

@dbushell thanks a lot for the work so far!

[delianides]

+1 for selects, I've stopped using sliders for time input because people complained about them. Selects seem to be a much better way to go.

[mgibbs189]

Any updates? Is the verdict to use time selection dropdowns?

This is the last issue preventing me from making a clean break from UI Datepicker / Timepicker.

[SilentImp]

+1 for time selectors

[stas]

Btw.
Current implementation of <input type="datetime"> in Opera

[rikkert]

Time support will live in a fork.

[noizyboy]

Which fork contains the time support?

[noizyboy]

Thanks @owenmead!