We are using the timeline to display publish dates of books etc.
loaded in via JSON. The list of dates can potentially contain 300,000+
items although more likeley to be around 25k. The line is laid out
with two bars one for centuries and one for years. To load all these
dates into the timeline at
Yes, dynamically loading of events via AJAX is possible. I've used this
technique often, and it works extremely well. Here's what I did:
On load of the timeline, I only load today's events, since the timeline is
initially centered on the current time. The user sees all the events for the
day.