Ron, I've put back the original layout. Has that helped?
David Ron Van den Branden wrote: > Hi all, > > I really love timeline and would like to use it for a project involving > the visual display of a kind of log book. On average, this involves some > 24 events per day, but there are 21 days on which more than 50 events > happened, with an upper limit of 336 events on a single day... As my > timeline involves several bands, I'd rather not try and err to find the > optimal height of the timeline div in different browsers, since the > sheer height of this massive band would render it next to useless from a > user point of view. > > So far, I've been trying to implement vertical scrollbars to deal with > overflowing content. Creating an intermediate div level between the div > with class "timeline-default timeline-container" and the one with class > "timeline-band timeline-band-n" seems to promise useful results, if I > can figure out how to transpose the latter's top and height > characteristics to the new, containing div (suggestion where to look, > anyone?). For this intermediate div, overflow settings can then handle > the vertical overflow of 'long' days. > > However, I noticed another problem. With the recent (08/14/2007) commit > in the code introducing the lay-out of events are against a "spine" in > the middle of the band, I noticed that some labels are cut off *above* > the band's visual space, without any means to scroll up to these labels. > Perhaps a screenshot can clarify the problem: > <http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd115/ronnyrubber/timeline.jpg>. > > What can I do to avoid the problem that event labels drop off the upper > limits of a band? Any comments in general on dealing with dense > timelines, or on my specific approach (I'd be much helped if I knew > where the generated divs get their @style characteristics) are much > appreciated! > > Thanks in advance, > > Ron Van den Branden > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
