Jon Crump wrote:
> David,
>
> Great work. It's wonderful that you're still working on this!
>
Hi Jon,
Freebase has a lot of temporal data with pretty images... :-)
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, David Huynh wrote:
>
>> - Images of different events can be of different sizes (compare "John D.
>> Rockefeller, Jr." (1874) against "Avery Rockefeller" (1903)).
>>
>> - The example shows 2 different sizes but potentially each image can
>> have its own size.
>>
> On my mac (10.5.5) in both FF (3.0.5) and Safari (3.1.2) no image for
> Avery displays. I only see blue circle with a little box around it.
>
Sorry I wasn't clear about this. There is no image for Avery, and so the
default icon is used, and it's of a different size than John D.
Rockefeller, Jr.'s image.
>> - Things are a lot more packed vertically (see middle timeline).
>> - Precise instant events with the same date/time can be "collapsed"
>> together to save space (see those "x events" in the middle timeline).
>>
> These collapsed events display no image, just a generic image placeholder.
>
Stefano suggested that their images should be stacked. I'll try that next.
> A general question about your original design decisions:
>
> The js object for event data takes the form:
> {
> "events":[
> {event},
> {objects}
> ]
> }
>
> why not simply an array of event objects:
>
> events = [{event},{event},...]
>
> Did you envision this map having keys in addition to "events"?
>
> Are there circumstances in which it might?
>
Yup, so one other key is "dateTimeFormat". There might be other
information that applies to all events, e.g., base URL to resolve all
relative image URLs. We might also eventually move the information about
the bands and decorators into the data file, making things a lot more
declarative.
David
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