This works perfectly, thank you so much! (I ended up using CSS to pre- load the images, using this method: http://perishablepress.com/press/2008/06/14/a-way-to-preload-images-without-javascript-that-is-so-much-better/) Elisabeth
On Mar 14, 11:03 pm, Larry Kluger <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Elisabeth, > > Your Timeline is looking great! > > Re the problem with bubbles that contain images: > The browser does not yet have the image downloaded the first time you ask for > the bubble. As a result the bubble is too small. When the image does > (finally) arrive, the browser adds scrollbars. > > The second time the bubble is shown, the image (and its dimensions) are in > the cache, so everything can be calculated correctly. > > Solutions: > 1) Preload the images when the page starts > up.http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-10878_11-5214317.html > > 2) It would be a good thing to extend Timeline to automatically preload the > image specified in the event's image attribute when the event bubble is being > displayed. > -- But on second thought, there would be the case of slow images slowing down > a bubble's display. (Maybe show a busy icon while waiting?) > -- We wouldn't want to preload all the images referenced by the events at > startup, instead would want to preload images only when they are about to be > displayed since only a small subset of the events on a Timeline may be > clicked by the user. > > 3) Another way to do it would be to dynamically adjust the bubble size once > the image has arrived to make the scrollbars unnecessary. > > I have filed an RFE about this issue. > Seehttp://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/detail?id=66 > > Regards, > > Larry > > ________________________________ > From: Elisabeth <[email protected]> > To: SIMILE Widgets <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 6:35:15 PM > Subject: Re: Unnecessary scrollbars in timeline event bubbles > > The difference between the events (I just figured out) is that the > yellow ones have images. I just added an image to the lime-colored > event bubble and it also appeared with scrollbars. What I can't figure > out is why the event bubbles sometimes have scrollbars and sometimes > don't. Is it a matter of loading time for the image or something? Is > there any way to avoid this? > Thanks! > Elisabeth > > On Mar 13, 6:29 pm, Elisabeth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > I have a timeline set up with several duration events and pop-up > > bubbles. Strangely, the first time you click on one of the yellow > > events (not the green or lime events) the event bubble comes up with > > vertical and horizontal scrollbars. The second time you click on it > > (after you've moved away), the bubble comes up normally (as I would > > like it to, without scrollbars). I'm probably doing something wrong, > > but does anyone know what might be causing this to happen? > > > Timeline is here:http://calligraphyqalam.com/styles/index.html > > Timeline.js is here:http://calligraphyqalam.com/styles/scripts/timeline.js > > > Thanks! > > Elisabeth --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
