Jerry, Welcome to the group. Answers below.
On 11/14/2012 1:07 PM, Jerry Asher wrote:
Hi, I beg everyone's pardon with some newbie questions.
I came across Timeline having googled and discovered Brian Croxall's
Timeline Tutorial -- And it is brilliant! That led me to Exhibit 2.0,
hosted at simile.mit.edu, which I've been playing with for a few days,
and which is also, pretty darn brilliant, but a bit opaque to me.
simile.mit.edu is retired; as you've discovered, everything is now
happening on simile-widgets.org
But I gather it has moved to here, and I am trying to find out the
status of the project and what I should be using.
Now I would like to use Exhibit to create a web page that takes data
from a google docs spreadsheet and presents that data as Timeline,
Tabular View, and Tile View. (I would also love to take those views
and generate printable versions of them.)
But I am a bit lost with the "new" website
at http://www.simile-widgets.org.
Which version of Exhibit should I be using if I
* I want something that works and is relatively stable,
* Has the most community support" and a forward migration path,
* Is reasonably documented?
* Is the most understandable to the beginning javascript developer?
Unforuntately you have three choices, each of which addresses a
different one of your bullets.
Exhibit 3 is where all the development effort is currently being
directed; ultimately it will be the best choice for everyone and is
already pretty good
Exhibit 2.2 (http://api.simile-widgets.org/2.2.0/) still has certain
features that have not yet been ported to E3 (but the amount is
ever-shrinking)
The as-yet-released Exhibit 2.3 (http://trunk.simile-widgets.org/exhibit
) has some bugfixes of 2.2.0 and still other additional features
For basic exhibit work, you should see no difference between the three
choices, as they are all compatible. If E3 has all the features you
need I would use it in preference to the others. Switching between them
should just require swapping which script you link in the head of your
document.
Exhibit 3 is not in subversion; instead check
https://github.com/zepheira/exhibit3/
Thank you,
Jerry
P.S. I am checking out simile so I can see the code from
http://simile-widgets.googlecode.com/svn/. It's been a while since I
used svn. What branch or tag corresponds to the released version?
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