Should calendars online look like calendars offline?

Making the UI for online calendars better ...

"What’s with grid-based calendars online? Lots of people think bringing offline design metaphors online is a bad idea, but I haven’t heard many people rail against offline calendar design online. In my book it’s a pretty big offender.

Offline a grid layout for a calendar makes sense. You only have so much physical space and because calendars are blank by default you don’t know which cells are more important than others. This forces all cells to be equal. Fine.

But online calendars are dyamic. You know what cells are being used and which aren’t. Right now. Minimize the ones that aren’t and maximize the ones that are. There’s better design here."   continued ...   (Via Signal vs. Noise)

Standard Box Calendar.