Selecting a timezone is hard

[ericlewis]

Selecting a timezone is hard. Cities are nested within Option groups, so typing in your city name doesn't work, forcing the user to do some serious scrolling.

[scribu]

Yeah, for some reason, whatever letter I press, I always end up with Zurich selected.

I think this would be a good candidate for ​Select2.

[ericlewis]

Replying to scribu:

Yeah, for some reason, whatever letter I press, I always end up with Zurich selected.

I think this would be a good candidate for ​Select2.

Indeed. It would definitely be useful elsewhere in the admin interface as well. Although under the Apache license version 2.0, not sure if that is an issue.

[scribu]

Yeah, Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPL3, but not with GPL2: ​http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#apache2

[helenyhou]

Replying to scribu:

Yeah, Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPL3, but not with GPL2

It's too bad that they didn't keep the MIT license Chosen has. I had been looking at Select2 for tag/non-hierarchical taxonomy metaboxes but came upon that very issue. We could use Chosen, though. It's just not as feature-ized as Select2 (but, IMO, a bit better looking): ​http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

I could have sworn there was talk of geolocation and/or adding something more like a map selector here, but can't recall where.

[ocean90]

Duplicate of #10324.

[ericlewis]

Replying to helenyhou:

Replying to scribu:

Yeah, Apache 2.0 is compatible with GPL3, but not with GPL2

It's too bad that they didn't keep the MIT license Chosen has. I had been looking at Select2 for tag/non-hierarchical taxonomy metaboxes but came upon that very issue. We could use Chosen in this particular instance, though. It's just not as feature-ized as Select2 (but, IMO, a bit better looking): ​http://harvesthq.github.com/chosen/

I could have sworn there was talk of geolocation and/or adding something more like a map selector here, but can't recall where.

FYI, I chatted with the developer of Select2 and he agreed to dual-licensing it under GPLv2 and Apache v2, so it can be put back on the table for consideration in WP core when the next dot release of that comes out (​Pull Request).

[nacin]

GPLv2 is not compatible with GPLv2 or later, which is what WordPress is. MIT is probably best when recommending a second dual license that is compatible with WordPress.

In this case though, a map seems best (and standard) — #10324.

[ericlewis]

Replying to nacin:

GPLv2 is not compatible with GPLv2 or later, which is what WordPress is. MIT is probably best when recommending a second dual license that is compatible with WordPress.

[facepalm]