{"id":1436,"date":"2007-03-24T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/deal-with-it\/"},"modified":"2007-03-24T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T15:32:08","slug":"deal-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/deal-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Deal With It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/03\/deal_with_it\">John Gruber<\/a>:\r\n<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/2007\/03\/deal_with_it\">\r\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing complex or confusing about iCal&#8217;s event entry UI. And with specific fields for each item of data, it is more <em>obvious<\/em> than Backpack&#8217;s &#8212; but only for a first-time user, which is the wrong case to optimize for. But to me iCal&#8217;s date entry UI is clearly <em>worse<\/em>, much worse, and the reason why can be expressed by the fact that it forces you to deal with about 10 user interface elements, versus just 2 for Backpack.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Gruber: There&#8217;s nothing complex or confusing about iCal&#8217;s event entry UI. And with specific fields for each item of data, it is more obvious than Backpack&#8217;s &#8212; but only for a first-time user, which is the wrong case to optimize for. But to me iCal&#8217;s date entry UI is clearly worse, much worse, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}