Thanks for this reply from Ryan over email...
Hello, Welcome and thanks for your kind words. I can answer some of your questions. On 2012-02-21 20:47 , alphabravo wrote: > Are the xml data files created and maintained manually or can they be > created from an excel file? If there is an excel file for the > christianity and jewish examples I would be interested in working with > them. Working with the xml file manually seems a bit tedious since it > is not in any particular order but no big deal if it has to be done > that way. No, it's done manually. As far as I know, there isn't a public transform for Excel to Timeline XML. It would probably be more useful to establish a pipeline from Google Docs spreadsheets to Timeline. > I have the religions example working locally with Explorer. With > Chrome the sliders appear but the events don't populate. Javascript is > enabled and I have cleared the cache but still nothing. Chrome only > works fully with the online version of the example. Chrome does not support filesystem XmlHttpRequest, which is how Timeline loads data. If by working locally you mean you're using file:/// URL's, that won't work in Chrome. It has to be over HTTP. On Feb 21, 9:47 pm, alphabravo <christopher.banb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Again please excuse a few newb questions in no particular order: > > I have the timeline widget running locally on an apache server. In the > Religions example the 1 AD shortcut brings the timeline to 1900 AD. At > first I though I had broken the html file but I see that the online > example does the same. The solution is beyond me at this point so > maybe someone can help me understand how to fix it on my local copy. > > Are the xml data files created and maintained manually or can they be > created from an excel file? If there is an excel file for the > christianity and jewish examples I would be interested in working with > them. Working with the xml file manually seems a bit tedious since it > is not in any particular order but no big deal if it has to be done > that way. > > I have the religions example working locally with Explorer. With > Chrome the sliders appear but the events don't populate. Javascript is > enabled and I have cleared the cache but still nothing. Chrome only > works fully with the online version of the example. > > Please feel free to refer me to the documentation if any of this is > already covered. > > Thanks again, > cb -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SIMILE Widgets" group. To post to this group, send email to simile-widgets@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to simile-widgets+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/simile-widgets?hl=en.
