Erez Boym wrote:
> Hi David
>   
>> Are you testing in IE on Windows? (I have never actually seen Timeline 
> crash a browser completely.)
>
> I think that Yahoo widgets are using IE.
>   
I mean, which web browser do you use? IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, 
Opera, Safari, ...?

> I'm not shore where exactly it crashes I'm in the process of print()ing and 
> log()ing to try to find out what exactly is cousin the problem. I know that 
> it happens in two places: when TimeLine is repainting the bands and  when I 
> click an event. The paint crash happens in about 80% of the times and the 
> other happens in about 20% of the times. My guess is that it is related to 
> the way events are managed in TimeLine but I didn't pinpoint the problem yet. 
>   
The usual strategy is to start out with a simple configuration (few 
bands, few events, etc.) and then add more things until it breaks.

Also, test in several browsers.

> It's .. hmmm challenging to reverse engineer an undocumented object oriented 
> code ;-). I'm having fun ! but it is time consuming. A little like playing 
> chess against Garry Kasparov.
>   
>> We're starting a transition that hopefully will encourage more open 
>> source contribution, which could yield better documentation. But 
>> unfortunately that will come too late for you.
>>     
> I was thinking to add the ability to set the IDs of elements in TimeLine from 
>  XML (Bands, Events ..). Do you accept code submissions from people which are 
> not part of your project ? How would one submit such code ?
>   
We are hoping to make that patch submission process easier in the near 
future. Hope you'll stay around and help out. :-)

David

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