11 comments

  • Joel CalifaJoel Califa, almost 9 years ago

    Hey Chris, cute idea but you could definitely spend some more time on the date selection module. I actually can't imagine a worse experience for selecting my birthday.

    4 points
    • Chris NagerChris Nager, almost 9 years ago

      Thanks, Joel. I used the standard date picker (<input type="date">). It works fine in Chrome or in Safari on iOS. I know Firefox and desktop Safari do not support type="date" yet. I agree that the experience on those browsers is pretty gross. Thanks again for the feedback.

      0 points
  • Mails LutMails Lut, almost 9 years ago (edited almost 9 years ago )

    The range of numbers for the month (1-12) / day (1-31) / year (0-99) is relatively small in comparison to the 0-255 range for each colour.

    Regardless of whether you use the date format DDMMYY or MMDDYY you're going to get blue most of the time, because in most cases the year will be the largest number (unless the date is before 1931). Otherwise you'll just get something else really dark.

    Scaling the numbers to fill the 0-255 range would mean

    Red = Month * 21.25

    Green = Day * 8.23

    Blue = Year * 2.55

    So 12/17/2014 would become

    (12*21.25) (17*8.23) (14*2.55) (255) (140) (36) #FF8C36

    Which is a sort of orange.

    3 points
  • Brenton RawlinsonBrenton Rawlinson, almost 9 years ago

    So blue. Pretty much just blue.

    3 points
    • Chris NagerChris Nager, almost 9 years ago

      I know. It's a sea of blue. Do you have any ideas on how I could add more/brighter colors while keeping the integrity of the birthday-based hexcodes?

      0 points
      • Laurens SpangenbergLaurens Spangenberg, almost 9 years ago

        I'm not sure exactly how to implement this, but it doesn't have to be "Find your birthday color." It could as well be, "Find your birthday colors," where it would give what shade of blue, red, green, and so on would somehow correlate with one's birthday.

        1 point
  • Gideon ChiaetGideon Chiaet, almost 9 years ago (edited almost 9 years ago )

    Nice! I like the idea of a color for every birthday. Every birthday I put in is relatively dark and blue though.

    Maybe you could scale the values to range in-between 00-FF so that there can be a higher range of possible colors.

    1 point
    • Chris NagerChris Nager, almost 9 years ago

      Thanks! Not a bad idea. I'll look into it. Any ideas how to implement the color scale you proposed?

      1 point
      • Matt SistoMatt Sisto, almost 9 years ago (edited almost 9 years ago )

        Hmm... Interesting problem, making this more interesting.

        You could maybe take advantage of single-digit numbers, the number of the month (January = 1, December = 12) and hex-friendly characters from the month's name.

        Picking from whichever combination adds up to 6 characters.

        For example:

        "February 1, 1984" could be any of the following:

        (02)(01)(84) = Navy

        (F)(1)(1984) = Pink

        (2)(1)(1984) = Navy

        *"August 26, 1984" *

        A82684 = Purple

        "December 30, 1972"

        DE3072 = Pink

        Another thing to consider: Many countries list the numeric day before the month. You may be able to leverage this to get totally different results.

        For example:

        "December 30, 1972" (written 30 December 72)

        30DE72 = Green

        1 point
  • Sean O'GradySean O'Grady, almost 9 years ago

    Alternate date format maybe? dd/mm/yy?

    0 points