If you're struggling with using timeline directly, you might want to
take a look at exhibit (http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit ). Exhibit
wraps timeline in ways that make it easier to use; in particular, you
won't need to write any javascript. It does require you to put your
data into a slightly different form, but it may be one you prefer---for
example, with exhibit you can serve you timeline data out of a google
spreadsheet instead of having to fight with xml.
On 1/27/2014 9:08 AM, Charles Knell wrote:
Thanks. I copied your page's source into my editor, then I was able to
identify the scripts and markup for the four timelines. I then
remarked out all but the material except for the first (upper left)
timeline.
Now I will examine the imported scripts carefully to get a better idea
of what's going on in them. I won't go into the Timeline stuff, but I
am not as familiar with AJAX and jQuery as I think I need to be to go
further.
Nonetheless, this is the farthest I've been able to get after many
tries. I am in your debt.
On Sunday, January 26, 2014 8:20:55 PM UTC-5, paul chubb wrote:
Hi Charles,
Most developer effort seems to be focused on
Exhibit. The group also seems to be a bit slow. All documentation
is a bit of a mess and out of date. Hopefully this will change. I
am not a developer but rather a user like yourself.
I had a quick look at your code and I can't see anything obviously
wrong. There are two classes of things that generally cause
issues: problems with the javascript generally produce issues like
you are seeing. If Simile manages to draw the background and then
dies then probably it is a problem with the events. Simile is very
sensitive to all sorts of non normal characters in events.
There are working examples on my beta site:
https://www.sandpile.me/. I suggest that you copy the html source
of the home page and slowly work out from there:
1) get it working on your local computer
2) change it down to a single timeline and get it working
3) change it from json retrieved from my site to your xml file and
get it working
4) Style it how you want and get it working.
At least then you will be working from a known good position. BTW
the whole site is a beta and I let 12 and 13 year olds use it so
some timelines are empty because they didn't put any info in. I
don't think any are crashing the site anymore...
HTH
Cheers Paul
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