Nick Rabinowitz wrote: > [...] I realize that the design philosophy of SIMILE seems to be to > make things as plug-and-play as possible, but as a developer I would > rather see a notice to the effect that there is a dependency on jQuery > than have it loaded invisibly. Indeed, I was trying to target both non-programmers and programmers, more the former than the latter, and perhaps didn't quite make either party that happy :-) Now that AJAX is mature, I'd totally welcome whichever industry standard way it is to load jQuery (given that non-programmers don't have to do much work).
> - For the date functions, have you considered using date.js > (http://code.google.com/p/datejs/)? While it's a little bit of > overkill, just using the core and parser code from this project would > give you a really robust date parser and set of date manipulation > functions. It doesn't currently support parsing early AD or BC dates, > but it would be easy enough to fall back on the Gregorian parser to > catch these as well. While it might not seem necessary to use such a > substantial parser if developers are producing the data, it's really > useful for anyone who wants to use Timeline or Timeplot with arbitrary > user date input, as it's much better at parsing different types of dates. Thanks for the link! I'll take a look. > I would like to help with this project, but it will definitely have to > wait a few months before I have the free time - Whenever you're free :) David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" 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/simile-widgets?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
