I have a student working on a timeline project based on my web site on the history of data visualization, http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/Gallery/milestone/
A testing version of the timeline is at http://www.moiz.ca/infovis/milestones/ with the .xml file at http://www.moiz.ca/infovis/milestones/timeline.xml Questions: * BC dates: There is a handful of BC dates in the full database, and others < 1000. We've been unable to get timeline to read these in the .xml file, though we've tried a variety of possibilities. For now, we've just deleted these events. I believe this bug has been fixed in the code that reads JSON format, but not for XML. * Is it possible to control the size / rescale images presented via the image="" attribute (as one can normally do in html with <img src="" width="100"> to get thumbs, or is it necessary to produce the thumbs as separate images? I have several hundred images. * Is it possible to specify a resolution for the dates presented in the timeline? All of the event items have times in years. It doesn't make any sense to see, in the popup bubble, Wed. 31 Dec 1304 19:00:00 GMT for an item that has start="1305" * Categorized events: These events have been categorized in several ways, e.g., by Form-- Maps, Diagrams, Technology. I see from the Monet example that one can use different icons. Is there any other way to group events visually by category? e.g., different text color for the label, different vertical bands, etc. * End for the timeline: How / where can we specify that the timeline data ends in a given year, so that one can't scroll right to years past that date? * I thought that it should be possible to include simple <b>HTML formatting</b> within an event like that, but this doesn't work. Is there something I've missed? thanks for any answers/hints on these questions. -Michael -- Michael Friendly Email: friendly AT yorku DOT ca Professor, Psychology Dept. York University Voice: 416 736-5115 x66249 Fax: 416 736-5814 4700 Keele Street http://www.math.yorku.ca/SCS/friendly.html Toronto, ONT M3J 1P3 CANADA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
