Andrew Turner wrote: >> David Huynh-2 wrote: >> We don't have any definite plan to implement the vertical event layout, >> because it's not so trivial. The difficulty lies in the fact that text >> flows horizontally, perpendicular to the flow of time if the timeline >> were vertical. >> > > Actually - wouldn't it be easier in this regard? By having a vertical > timeline, text would flow perpendicular to the time axis. So an event > at time T would only have it's text in that time "span". Whereas now > the marker is at the time, but the text covers future or past time. > But whatever you have several events at the same time (or close by)? Or if you have durations that overlap in time?
> This is something I'd be interested in seeing. As the original author > pointed out, the ability to have a sidebar of a timeline would be very > nice. Perhaps similar to 'mapbendar' > > http://mashpit.pbwiki.com/MapendarProject > What they did was eliminating the text labels altogether. > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://simile.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/general
