Ask YC: Fewer lines of clever code or more lines of clearer code?

Re:Ask YC: Fewer lines of clever code or more lines of clear... by watmough on Sunday June 22, 2008 @07:44PM (#224505)

I went back and re-read your explanation above, and my constructive criticism would be the following:

1. Use a table, or horizontal grid of divs to represent the calendar. You can write different server or client side code to render different presentations, e.g. calendar, 5 day view, 7 day view etc.

2. In this grid, tag each div with the appropriate date stamp as appropriate for your application.

3. Build code on the client side to track mouse drags, clicks, or whatever you need to provide the user with a great experience specifying start and end times.

None of this sounds that hard or tricky, and I would certainly be happier with an approach that separated out generating time tagged divs from the presentation and selection mechanism.

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Re:Ask YC: Fewer lines of clever code or more lines of clear... by technoguyrob on Sunday June 22, 2008 @07:47PM (#224508)

Yeah, I did all this. :) For part 2, I still need a helper function like this because the timestamp changes (when the user resizes, moves, etc.). Does that make more sense? I have a grid of DIVs, on which I position events on top of.

EDIT: I see what you mean. For part 3, for example, I want "12:05", not "12:04:27". Yeah, I was getting to that.

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