I've been doing this with Google Maps recently and it's surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it. The ex-canvas.js library for IE even allows you to use it in Internet Explorer (although for some reason it took me just as long to make all the stuff work in IE as it did to write the Firefox compatible code in the first place)
I found that SVG was unbearably slow after only a few lines had been drawn onscreen where as with a canvas element it's still lovely and smooth with hundreds of lines drawn Alan On 13 Nov 2006, at 08:43, Alf Eaton wrote: > Drawing with <canvas> could make arbitrary lines easier, though it > might be too big a change to the current architecture. Overlay a > canvas on the existing timeline, maybe? > > alf. > > On 08 Nov 2006, at 23:45, Joshua Perry wrote: > >> This is something that I was pondering on how it could be >> implemented. >> >> I know that the Adobe SVG control has a transparent mode. Anyone >> know if SVG in other browsers/controls can be overlaid like an >> image element? If so this may be one way to implement what you >> want to do. >> >> It should be an interesting implementation (i'm not an SVG pro, >> never used it in fact), though some browsers enjoy easy inline SVG, >> you have to rely on hacks in others (using behaviors in IE). >> >> Josh >> >> On 11/7/06, Alf Eaton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Would it be possible to draw lines (or arrows) between items in a >>> Timeline, to illustrate cause and effect? >>> >>> alf. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> General mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
