First off, the annotated time line is a great component and something folks have wanted for a long time.
Have a quick question and a couple of feature requests that I thought I'd cram into a single posting :) Question: Are releases of new versions of this component expected to be backward compatible? Is it possible to download and host all needed components locally from our server or do you expect us to cross reference Google's domain to download JS, CSS, SWF files i.e. indirectly via http://www.google.com/jsapi ? I noticed that there was a mix of http and https references which popup in IE as warnings that I was hoping to avoid. Feature / enhancement requests: a. The legend in its present form isn't very intuitive/standard w.r.t. trends as seen in most libraries. This is especially obvious when you have a large number of series (with large labels) plotted simultaneously. Good news is that you folks provide an option to turn off the internally rendered legend. The concept is great in that you'll have combined the legend and datapoint tooltips into a single entity thereby saving on real estate. However, I think a lot of people prefer the old fashioned legend on the right (which could even be custom rendered outside the annotated time line component) and data points as a tooltip (with custom html formatting) via a hover over the period units. b. Is it possible to customize the series data points when highlighted? As of now, they're small dots which aren't really visible when you increase the line thickness. Suggestion - a nice visualization of the onhover datapoints is a colored hollow circle. c. Provide more options to customize; e.g. the black border is too dark. The cyan background in the timeline adjuster section at the bottom doesn't mix well with our application palette. d. Provide the ability to scale the time line to a higher level of granularity. e.g. weeks, months, years (with corresponding support in the datatable). e.g. if I want to trend last 12 months of data, I'd like to see 12 points corresponding to 12 months - not 365 points corresponding to the number of days in the 12 months. e. Provide an attached carousel control (docked at the top or bottom) to show annotations. e.g. http://billwscott.com/carousel/carousel_html_static_multiple.html http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/stepcarousel.htm http://www.prototype-ui.com/current/test/functional/carousel/test_carousel.html --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Visualization API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-visualization-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
