7:51am Mon Jul 17, 2006

While searching for Qt/Timeline info, I ran across an AJAX Timeline system.

   http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/

It such a cool javascript application that I just want to play with it more.  I just copied all the associated javascript files, images, and css to my computer so that I don't have to make calls back to the Simile site. 

The event data for the timeline comes from an XML file.  You can create a number of "bands" that are synchronized but are different scales for the same timeframe.  I'd like to have:

• AGE (Year)
  
• YEAR
• CENTURY
  

I want these as my bands... Here they are!




Topic Bands

I'm thinking it would be better to create "bands" for related events:

• Job
• School
• Vacations/Trips
• ???

It seems that these events should go into their own band, otherwise they get rather scrambled.

How do I assign different XML data files to different bands?  The