Concept of "current" month is outdated with infinite scrolling month view
The month view currently still has of the concept of a "current" month. This made sense before the infinite scrolling month view when the view was fixed to a specific month. The user was navigating the view month-wise and with that restriction it made sense to dim the date number and the cells background in order to highlight the current month. Also the dimming indicated that the cells from the previous and next month were insensitive and it was not possible to create an event by clicking them.
Now we have the infinite scrolling month view which allows to align any week to the top of the view. This means that there is no more "current" month that the user has chosen to look at. Events often span across months and it is one of the great benefits of the infinite scrolling month view that it is possible to view these events now without the restriction of separate month views.
We still find some remainders of this concept in the current month view which just don't make sense anymore or have introduced new problems:
- Dimming the date numbers and the background for non-current month cells makes them look insensitive even tough they are sensitive and it is possible to create events by clicking them.
- With scrolling, the dimming of the date numbers and the background became dynamic. This introduces a weird transition between dimmed and non-dimmed state when the beginning of the month crosses the middle of the grid.
The different look for "current" month cells should be dropped because it's not meaningful anymore.
When the dimming of date numbers and cell backgrounds gets removed it will at first decrease the visual difference between adjacent months. I want to point out that I'm totally in favor of making it easy to identify the first day of a month. I'm just saying that the concept of "current" month and the dimming is not the solution to differentiating adjacent months anymore. We should consider alternatives to increase contrast again but without incorporating the concept of "current" month.