Kent,
You could try the JSONP trick: your servlet returns a stream of
Javascript code that looks like this
callbackName({
... data in JSON format here ...
});
callbackName can be set in the URL to your servlet, if desired. What
this lets people do is this:
<html>
<head>
<script src=".../timeline-api.js"></script>
<script>
var holdTheDataHere = null;
var tl;
function doSomething(data) {
holdTheDataHere = data;
};
function makeTimeline() {
var eventSource = ...
...
tl = Timeline.create(...);
eventSource.loadJSON(holdTheDataHere,
document.location.href);
};
</script>
<script src=".../timeproviderservlet?url=...SOME
FEED...&callback=doSomething"></script>
</head>
<body onLoad="makeTimeline();">
...
</body>
</html>
This example shows you what the JSON data looks like
http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/cubism/cubism.html
David
Kent Gibson wrote:
> First of all thanks for the timeline, it is well done.
>
> I dunno where to go with the servlet. After writing it
> yesterday I found out it wont work as a service (which
> was what I wanted), becuase javascript requires that
> the what you pass into Timeline.loadXML is located at
> the same server where the javascript is running. In
> other words you must serve your XML from the
> same server as the HTML comes from.
>
> I could return HTML instead but I am not sure what
> that will bring, I need to do something with the xml,
> no? I am open for any suggestions. I would like to
> make it more live.
>
> this how I intended it to work as a service, this is
> the url of the servlet:
> http://www.syndicatescape.com/timeproviderservlet
>
> add ?url=YOUR_FEED to the end of the url and you get
> XML.
>
>
>
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