The timeline at http://crosswire.org:8080/~chrisburrell/Step.html
looks really useful even in its default state and it is quite flexible too.
It looks more like an application on the local machine than a web application
The hover box is very smooth.
Can we use this to add links? - eg "Click to go to Exo.12"?.
One problem is too much information.
The screen shot of Act 2 with the Jesus timeline turned on illustrates a common occurance.
There is so much going on in the last week, that the Jesus timeline ends up very tall,
and the main timeline for Acts 2 has dropped to the bottom.
Two possible ways forward spring to mind
1) always make the default timeline (in this case NTChurch) always appear at the top.
2) find some way to concatenate events which occur at the same time.
- perhaps anything with exactly the same date, can be named after that date (eg 29 Apr 33 AD)
- or (more difficult) anything within a span of dates can be opened up by clicking on that span,
so that clicking on "Passion Week" opens up all dates within that span.
I'm sure you have already thought of these.
I think the last idea is the best but I imagine that it involves a LOT of programming.
Fantastic progress.
David IB
At 21:46 15/02/2010, Tyndale STEP Project wrote:
Hi guys
Newer version of the timeline component up on the crosswire website. It's not organised very nice on the screen, but you'll see a bunch of checkboxes to toggle timebands on and off, and then the timeline component.
Try for eg. Acts 2 or Ex 8:1 something like that. I've started working on the scripture display part which is probably the next key bit...
Chris
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Posted By Tyndale STEP Project to Tyndale STEP - Programming on 2/15/2010 01:46:00 PM
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