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

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

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Post by libraryatnight »

m_ke wrote: post #11

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

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

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

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Post by dantheman »

delinka wrote: post #10
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 lat…

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

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

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Post by wingspan »

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).

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

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Post by dmvaldman »

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?

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