Timeline - A JS Library For Beautiful Timelines That Are Easy & Intuitive To Use • Hacker News Board

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.

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

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Post by atestu » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 5:54 PM UTC

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.

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

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Post by silverlight » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 5:56 PM UTC

Very neat!

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

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Post by delinka » Wed, Mar 28, 2012, 5:59 PM UTC

udp wrote: post #6

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

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/