I was wondering if anyone had yet come up with a workaround for the "date" functionality in specifying birthdays for users?
The calendar that pops up is VERY difficult to navigate when specifying birthdays - and leads to users dismissing it altogether.
On our site, we provide rewards for birthdays - and would like to make it simpler for users to provide this data in the following format:
Birthday: [2 digits]/[2 digits]/[4 digits]
The user can not dismmiss the calendar, being forced to enter the information through the calendar - which, from a usability standard, is horrible for entering dates of this nature.
The calendar is useful only when people are curious as to what day of the week the date falls on - because it shows them a nice display of the date. It's very cute, but the pull-downs for the years (if the user even takes the time to hunt them down) only show 8 years before or after.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can someone help me create a hack for this approach that will allow for users to more easily sumbit their birthdays.
Also - it's worth noting that most people (particularly women) do not want to provide their age.
So the perfect solution would simply be a birthday request for month and day.
I currently have set up my user profiles to request the month and day of a birthday - but this info is useless in interacting with the birthday remind modules, etc.
Thanks for any help.