[Simile-Widgets] Simile Timeline scalability.

2011-08-23 Thread Lutz Biedinger
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

Re: [Simile-Widgets] Simile Timeline scalability.

2011-08-23 Thread Michael Nosal
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.