Hi, For my timeline, I only download event descriptions from the server when the user clicks on a bubble.
That lowers the initial download size by quite a lot--improving time required to first draw the timeline. Another download speed up is to compress (at the http level) both the js libraries and your datafile. Doing so is a change at the web server level, no change is required to timeline. But having a lot of events (even without the descriptions) can give choppy UI when Timeline has to calculate a new section of a band. One idea might be to first have your users choose a time period, then show a timeline for that period. -- rather than giving them a giant timeline that covers all possible time periods. Re browser performance: chrome is the best, IE6 is the worst. Hope this helps, Larry Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile -----Original Message----- From: harshal <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 08:09:37 To: SIMILE Widgets<[email protected]> Subject: Re: Poor Timeline Performance Hi David, Is there any document that can explain this on-demand loading? Thanks. ./harshal On May 24, 5:08 am, David Huynh <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim wrote: > > I am using two data files that weigh-in around 1MB. I am also > > highlighting holidays and weekends on my timeline. As a result both IE > > and Firefox have been exhausted trying to run this and it has evolved > > into a smoothly scrolling timeline into a choppy, laggy timeline. > > > Any suggestions on increasing the performance? > > > Has anyone tried with a different browser? - I read that Safari Beta 4 > > processes javascript much faster than all browsers. > > Tim, > > Timeline isn't really designed to handle 1Mb of data. To work around > this limitation, it's possible to load just a subset of the data, and > then load more when the user scrolls to a different time range. > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
