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

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