Timeline - A JS Library For Beautiful Timelines That Are Easy & Intuitive To Use

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by noob007 • 14 years ago

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noob007• 14 years ago

Direct Link: http://timeline.verite.co/

saurabh• 14 years ago

Try the zoom buttons to experience the slickness. Very cool!

jaequery• 14 years ago

beats the heck out of facebook timeline!

gbaygon• 14 years ago

Your blog adds no content, please post direct links. Thanks.

udp• 14 years ago

GPLv3 is quite limiting for a JS library. The source file[1] also has no license in the header, just a copyright.

[1] http://veritetimeline.appspot.com/latest/timeline-min.js

delinka• 14 years ago

You're looking at the minimized file. In source/js/timeline.js it says:

    Verite Timeline 0.82
    Copyright 2011 Verite.co
    Designed and built by Zach Wise digitalartwork.net
    Date: February 7, 2012

    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    http://www.gnu.org/licenses/

dantheman• 14 years ago

I posted an issue on github, recommending they include a license file in the main directory and switch to LGPL. Personally, I'm a fan of MIT/BSD, but if they prefer the GPL style, then the LGPL makes sense if they want the library to be used.

https://github.com/VeriteCo/Timeline/issues/4

visural• 14 years ago

Could you explain why?

I've never been able to find a conclusive answer on GPL applied to Javascript

kodablah• 14 years ago

Very neat. There are no examples for parsing times instead of just dates that I can see (but it appears VMM.Util.parseDate supports it). Something like a timeline for server monitoring data would be a good use of this. Also, I would hope for a little more commercially friendly license for a library like this instead of the GPL.

seanp2k2• 14 years ago

Exactly what I was thinking. Can't wait to plug this into our custom Opsview (nagios) pages :D

atestu• 14 years ago

This is gorgeous.

Thank you for making it open source.

Reminds me a lot of Simile Timeline (by MIT: http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/) but this looks so much better!

Thank you.

silverlight• 14 years ago

Very neat!

m_ke• 14 years ago

Looks good from the pics but on my iPhone it makes the website impossible to use. Scrolling and pinch to zoom doesn't work.

libraryatnight• 14 years ago

The site with the examples, timeline.verite.co, lists iPhone compatibility as an issue.

thornofmight• 14 years ago

Very cool.

I want to create a journal/blogging app which uses this as its main user interface.

wingspan• 14 years ago

Beautiful! Is anyone else slightly annoyed by the front-loaded easing when you click the arrows? (I have no idea if that is the right term, but I mean to say the fact that it starts slowly, then speeds up. I'd prefer the other way around).

treelovinhippie• 14 years ago

Vertical scrolling option? (or at least scroll wheel support?)

dmvaldman• 14 years ago

Beautiful! I love the collapse/expand feature too.

One problem I have with the UI is that I feel the left/right arrows should ONLY be for going to different horizontal locations on the timeline, but they scroll through vertical locations as well if they are all at the same time. This was unexpected. Perhaps up/down arrows for the vertical navigation?

halefx• 14 years ago

Doesn't work very well on ChromeOS. Also, why is there no HTML "file format"?

platz• 14 years ago

Building something simalaar to this was the only good idea I'd been harboring forna while now, but it will be interesting to see the feedback. I couldn't figure out how flexible to make it or what features to support, or if it should accept a file-based data structure for those not wanting to program an api. I guess I don't really know the audience.

Metapony• 14 years ago

Wonderful! I can't wait to have some free time to play with this!

Timeline - A JS Library For Beautiful Timelines That Are Easy & Intuitive To Use

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