Re: suggestions about displaying time and title in week view

Can the time window always center on "now"?  (i.e. it moves slowly as 
the day passes to night)

Mimi Yin wrote:
> This might be difficult for users with smaller screens. Assuming you 
> have 1 or 2 rows of items in the all-day area, that would leave you 
> with a calendar canvas that can only display 7.5 hours at a time. 
> Which by today's standards, is a pretty short work-day (at least in 
> the U.S.) ;o) (See screenshot below).
>
> If people are using the calendar for work + home, it makes it hard to 
> see the whole day in a single glance. (Morning gym work-out, Meetings, 
> After-work dinner plans).
>
> With a shared office calendar (which is one of our core use cases for 
> small group collaborative calendaring), users will have lots more 
> all-day items (PTO, holidays, cleaning days, etc) and the calendar 
> canvas could easily shrink to 6 hours.
>
> I think 1 hour meetings are still by-in-large more common than 
> half-hour meetings? It might be better to design around 1-hour as the 
> default, rather than half-hour.
>
> Users with larger screens, or lots of half-hour meetings can always 
> change the hour settings.
>
> Mimi
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> On Apr 30, 2006, at 5:21 PM, Mitch Kapor wrote:
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>> A 30 minute meeting should normally be tall enough to display two 
>> lines of text, not one, in order to show a time and a title.  This 
>> can be helped  by reducing the default # of hours to be shown on screen.
>>
>> Use the time zone icon approach Mimi prototyped to save space.
>>
>> Always display columns wide enough to show time  as HH:MM XM or HH:MM 
>> XM TZ if the event is in a different time zone than the currently 
>> viewed one.  Never truncate._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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