[Zope3-dev] Re: SVN: Zope3/branches/3.3/ Fixed issue 525: DateWidget ru-format

[Christian Theune]

Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Previously Christian Theune wrote:
>> I'm very much against "relaxed" date/time format checking. I tend to 
>> give my user the exact format that is expected and fail otherwise. All 
>> the guessing in the past led to bad bad errors because the field order 
>> the user entered was syntactically compatible but had a semantically 
>> different meaning.
> 
> Shouldn't users use a nice dynamic widget to select dates and times?
> That will prevent all these problems.

Hell no. :)

It's much more efficient for a trained user to type '2005-08-08' instead 
of having to click for 2 minutes through a "usable nice widget".

BTW: The best UI I ever worked with was an ASCII terminal-software where 
one should select menu entries by typing their numbers. I could 
blindfoldedly navigate through that system much faster than most of the 
software I use today ...

Christian

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