Hi Larry, Thanks for the advice. I tried the first solution but it didn't solve the problem completely. I'm working on the second, though worried about slow onload time.
Sarah Sarah McLennan | Owner Sarah McLennan Web Services 1646 Roxbury Place North Vancouver, BC V7G 1Z1 604-628-3405 (in Canada) 510-559-3143 (in USA) 778-316-5529 (cell) On May 1, 2009, at 9:58 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Chormou, > > The issue with bubbles first appearing with scroll bars is caused > when the bubble contains images. The first time a bubble is drawn, > the image has not yet arrived at the browser, so the size is not > known. The bubble is the drawn too small by timeline. when the image > does arrive, the browser adds the scrollbars. > > The 2nd time the bubble is shown, the image is already present, so > its size is known. > > The real fix is for the bubble sw to wait until the image is > downloaded before trying to calculate the right bubble size. > > Workarounds: > 1) Preload the images. There are plenty of sample js scripts out > there for this. > 2) Set default bubble width and ht to be large enough. Set in the > theme. > > Regards, > Larry > Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile > > -----Original Message----- > From: chormou <[email protected]> > > Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:19:44 > To: SIMILE Widgets<[email protected]> > Subject: bubble > > > > Hi- > > Very new to timelines but I've created one for a site. > http://www.sarahmclennan.com/client_sites/vmc/timeline/timeline.html > > It is going well but I've got two problems. > > One- I want to get rid of the date stamp, i.e. "Mon, 01 Jan 1923 > 08:00:00 GMT" at the bottom of each bubble and the white space that > follows. > > Two- When the user clicks on an event the bubble (picture/text) > doesn't go to full size, it appears with a scroll bar. When returning > to it, clicking on it a second time, the bubble is full size. How do I > get it to be full size to begin with? > > Thanks in advance, > > S. > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
