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

136 points by noob007 15y ago

noob007 15y ago
Direct Link: http://timeline.verite.co/ http://timeline.verite.co/
saurabh 15y ago
Try the zoom buttons to experience the slickness. Very cool!
jaequery 15y ago
beats the heck out of facebook timeline!
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gbaygon 15y ago
Your blog adds no content, please post direct links. Thanks.
udp 15y 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 http://veritetimeline.appspot.com/latest/timeline-min.js
- delinka 15y 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 15y 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 https://github.com/VeriteCo/Timeline/issues/4
- visural 15y ago
  Could you explain why? I've never been able to find a conclusive answer on GPL applied to Javascript
kodablah 15y 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 15y ago
  Exactly what I was thinking. Can't wait to plug this into our custom Opsview (nagios) pages :D
atestu 15y 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/ http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/) but this looks so much better! Thank you.
silverlight 15y ago
Very neat!
m_ke 15y 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 15y ago
  The site with the examples, timeline.verite.co, lists iPhone compatibility as an issue.
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thornofmight 15y ago
Very cool. I want to create a journal/blogging app which uses this as its main user interface.
wingspan 15y 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 15y ago
Vertical scrolling option? (or at least scroll wheel support?)
dmvaldman 15y 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 15y ago
Doesn't work very well on ChromeOS. Also, why is there no HTML "file format"?
platz 15y 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 15y ago
Wonderful! I can't wait to have some free time to play with this!

136 points by noob007 15y ago

noob007 15y ago

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

saurabh 15y ago

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

jaequery 15y ago

beats the heck out of facebook timeline!

deleted 15y ago
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gbaygon 15y ago

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

udp 15y 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 http://veritetimeline.appspot.com/latest/timeline-min.js

delinka 15y 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 15y 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 https://github.com/VeriteCo/Timeline/issues/4
visural 15y ago
Could you explain why? I've never been able to find a conclusive answer on GPL applied to Javascript

kodablah 15y 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 15y ago
Exactly what I was thinking. Can't wait to plug this into our custom Opsview (nagios) pages :D

atestu 15y 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/ http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/) but this looks so much better! Thank you.

silverlight 15y ago

Very neat!

m_ke 15y 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 15y ago
The site with the examples, timeline.verite.co, lists iPhone compatibility as an issue.
deleted 15y ago
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thornofmight 15y ago

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

wingspan 15y 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 15y ago

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

dmvaldman 15y 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 15y ago

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

platz 15y 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 15y ago

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