Hi, I'm working on a project that allows users to compare different prices in 18th and 19th century England -- so that people can see different economic proportions, and see how they've altered -- understanding, for example, that the cost of a book was equivalent to a day- labourer's wages for a week in 1755.
I'd like to use Timeline for this -- because I think it's exactly the sort of visual interface that I need -- but of course its built-in date units are set to normal units of time. However, the Simile Widgets wiki provides a couple of useful sets of instructions for customizing to create alternate units of time, i.e., quarter hours (http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/ Timeline_CustomDateRanges and http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/How_to_create_own_date_ranges) -- and I think it should be equally possible for me to alter them in order to reflect pre-1971 British currency (i.e. 12 pence to 1 shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound, etc.) I'm mostly self-taught, but I've taken courses in Java, and so I'm pretty good at understanding syntax, and how to alter it without screwing it up, and debugging when necessary. But I thought I'd see if I could get a second opinion -- would this work? Should it, if I'm careful in altering date-time.js and labellers.js? It would be great if it did -- it means that I could set up facets to allow people to isolate a particular year or area, and then scroll through the timeline, and instead of having to start with an exact amount, they would be able to see things that were within a close range of the amount as well. Thanks in advance, and my apologies if this isn't an appropriate question for this forum. -- 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.
