Do you have the "example1.xml" file?? I had a similar issue. the file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <data><event start="May 28 2006 09:00:00 GMT" end="Jun 15 2006 09:00:00 GMT" isDuration="true" title="Writing Timeline documentation" image="http://simile.mit.edu/images/csail-logo.gif";> A few days to write some documentation for <a href="http:// simile.mit.edu/timeline/">Timeline</a>. </event><event start="Jun 16 2006 00:00:00 GMT" end="Jun 26 2006 00:00:00 GMT" title="Friend's wedding"> I'm not sure precisely when my friend's wedding is. </event><event start="Aug 02 2006 00:00:00 GMT" title="Trip to Beijing" link="http://travel.yahoo.com/";> Woohoo! </event></data> -Joe On Jul 18, 2:08 pm, Ryan Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Brad, > > Your notes describe a basic tenet of Timeplot and other SIMILE widgets. > It can only be run from a web server. It expects to load dependencies > and is written to do so by making requests back to the server it's being > hosted upon. Where the examples refer > tohttp://api.simile-widgets.org/timeplot/1.1/timeplot-api.js, that http > part of the URL is basically a constant. > > You can host it yourself and adjust for a different hostname and path > structure. But you can't run it without a server. > > On 7/13/11 7:51 AM, Brad Figg wrote: > > > > > > > > > I walked carefully through the timeplot tutorial and even cut/pasted > > the source from the tutorial page. I get an empty timeplot rectangle > > displayed with the timeplot copyright notice displayed. However I > > never see any data. I've tried my own data, I've tried the data from > > the source code. > > > I pulled down a copy of the source tree with svn and tried all the > > examples. Same problem, just a lot of empty timeplot boxes, none of > > the examples work when I run them locally. However, I am able to see > > them just fine from the online web demos. > > > Thoughts? > > Brad -- 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.
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