Hi
I am a little confused now.
Which is/where is the official timeline code?
I would like to have timeline as a JQuery plugin: is it so already, or
planned for the near future, or just a possible fork?
Thanks Cheers
mario
On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 13:29 -0700, Ted Benson wrote:
> HI Matt,
>
>
> Rekindling this thread.. We were chatting today about bringing some of
> your improvements back to the Simile version of Timeline. Namely, some
> of the performance improvements and the removal of the dependence on
> SimileAjax, which is a vestige of the days when jQuery didn't exist
> yet.
>
>
> Do you have an idea of how easy some of these changes might be to port
> back into our codebase? (Ideally without requiring a complete
> rewrite).
>
>
> Thanks a lot for all your work on this!
>
>
> Ted Benson
>
>
>
> On Sunday, July 7, 2013 8:47:33 PM UTC-4, Matt Denman wrote:
> I started using timeline a while ago and dug in deep. I love
> the widget, but I really disliked the way it was loading the
> javascript and how its script block needed to be in the head
> section. I tore out the timeline code from the overall Simile
> project and removed much of the base code that wasn't needed
> or was just a duplicate of what jquery has. I've changed the
> way class methods are defined to be more streamlined and the
> overall result is now one file that is 153kb minified and 44k
> zipped. This is a significant size difference from the Simile
> version, which loads faster on the iPad. This code version
> also has tablet touch support as provided in other threads on
> the web.
>
>
> I've completely removed all support for doing ajax directly
> from Timeline as its just more mainstream to use something
> like $.load(...).done(function(json){...}). This is an
> example of removing stuff from timeline that jquery already
> does.
>
>
> Another thing removed is the history stuff which forced
> another query on the server and wasn't really used in timeline
> anyway.
>
>
> Also, the code no longer tries to load its own version of
> jquery. My thinking is, if you cant properly setup jquery on
> the page, you probably aren't ready to use timeline. I think
> the main developer should be crystal clear on what version of
> jquery is being used in their project. That code was just
> bloat.
>
>
> I've also setup the creation of the timeline as a real jquery
> plugin. All examples I've converted over work, and my own app
> which pushes the edges of the timeline works with the new
> code.
>
>
> I'm not sure if this new code should be setup as a branch to
> the main project or just shared somewhere else. I want to
> take timeline further than it is now, including support
> classes in .NET for ASP.NET classic and MVC. Right now I'm
> thinking I'll just host this version on another site and let
> it go from there.
>
>
> I'm adding better event notification to support having other
> things on the page show data related to the events showing on
> the page. For example, all financial transactions visible on
> the timeline are summarized in a table below the timeline.
>
>
> I've also added support for event grouping by having bands
> that dont have to have a timeline painter. Put different
> events on each band and only have the bottom band have the
> date tic marks. This groups events well.
>
>
> I also need to add support for paging events rather than
> loading all events into the timeline at once. As the user
> scrolls through time, the timeline should be able to have
> events added and removed dynamically to keep the total # of
> events (and DOM elements) actually rendered down to a
> minimal. I worked on the Nitobi Grid which did virtual
> scrolling with data paging via ajax and it worked well. I see
> it as critical for timeline to support this really well.
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