Gareth Jones wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been playing around with timeline and really like it. I want to add two
> features:
>
>
>   1.  Ability to load XML file when user scrolls back a certain distance.
> i.e. load 2007.xml and if the user scrolls back as far as February 2007
> start loading 2006.xml.
>   
Some other older threads on this topic are here:
    http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Timeline/Load_Events_Dynamically

>   2.  Ability to group events and have checkboxes and display only the
> ticked groups on the timeline. The timeline could load all the data and just
> display the ticked groups.
>   
You might want to look at Exhibit instead:
    http://simile.mit.edu/exhibit/
But the highlighting and filtering mechanism in Timeline might be 
sufficient. See the textboxes at the bottom of this example:
    http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/examples/jfk/jfk.html

> I have some idea how to go about the first following a post here [a].
> Unfortunately I can't get that to work, can someone expand a bit on what's
> required here please? 
Any URL for us to look at? Hard to know what's gone wrong without seeing 
anything :-)

Cheers,

David

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