Making a timeline with extreme years seems to fail
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7640931/full-range-of-javascript-date-objects

We'll have to come up with a creative way of handling this.

I know this makes @zachwise cringe but people like them.

When I placed a timeline within a div with the following style:

timeline {

    position: asbolute;
    left: 0;
    right: 0;
    top: 100px;
    bottom: 0;

}

The timeline ran 100px off the bottom of the page, causing the page to scroll.

Getting Uncaught invalid scale era on this spreadsheet
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Right now, the first slide is always marked as the 'title' slide (based on its position, not an explicit 'type'), but also, the setup process doesn't allow for slides which don't have a date.

I wonder if we should make the title slide a separate thing in the JSON, even if it's configuration is similar to other slides, and the markup generation mostly the same.

Title slides in the original Timeline don't show up in the time nav, and they don't require dates. I think that's probably what we want too.

Treating this as a question for now, but we will need to turn it into action items.

You can see this in the example I added in the examples folder called years.json
Getting major ticks such as:
-2412, -1413, -5411
roughly a millenium a part but not rounded to -2000,-1000 etc

We have a simple page where people can put in their old timeline spreadsheet URLs, and I added something to export the TimelineJS3 JSON. It looks kinda janky. @hbillings can you glitterbomb it pls?

If a slide has no headline, then the text in the Previous/Next StorySlider controls is not replaced. As you navigate back and forth within a timeline, the text in the control will not match what the previous/next slide actually is, which is confusing. There should probably be some language-dependent default text. Or, maybe allow no text.

Discussed with Zach:

We'll adjust the options that get passed into the Timeline constructor so that, as early as possible, Timeline will install an object in options.language which can be used to get localized messages (date formats, etc). The options will be passed around to all components which need language services. Doing this supports the possible (albeit rare) case that different timelines on one page would have different languages. It also might allow us to handle certain more complicated message formatting issues more flexibly than we do now, by encapsulating the complexity in the language object.

Since we've shied away from trying to package slides as reusable code, this is a sibling to
NUKnightLab/StoryMapJS#160

When that one is fixed, the same should be applied to https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3/blob/master/source/js/media/types/VCO.Media.Twitter.js#L61

Users often use a Dropbox URL like https://www.dropbox.com/s/llahmtejgebc5h5/boombox.jpg which points to HTML, not an image. The transformation is simple: change the domain name to "dl.dropboxusercontent.com" (e.g. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/llahmtejgebc5h5/boombox.jpg)

We should infer this when people use www.dropbox.com/...(jpg|gif|png) URLs.

https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3/blob/master/compiled/cosmo.html

Lots of overlap
0AmaVMvy285_tdHBod2s3aWFvZmlwVnZWcHFaZjBfdEE

Hashtag bookmarking

When a minor tick is created that is also created in major then don't create the minor one.

For instance if the minor is years and the major is decade, don't create the minor ones for the decade years.

Major
1900, 1910, 1920

Minor
1901, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1905, 1906, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1911, 1912 etc

Should this be in AxisHelper or should I handle it on the display side?

Sample Timeline 0Agl_Dv6iEbDadHdKcHlHcTB5bzhvbF9iTWwyMmJHdkE has a slide with a Google Map. VCO.MediaType.js has an entry for "googlemaps", which maps to VCO.Media.Map, but VCO.Media.Map.js does not exist.

I don't like them, I'm gonna look into css clipping

In NUKnightLab/TimelineJS#725, someone requested the ability to display markers on the timeline corresponding to, for example, the lifespan of a person, but to sequence the slide based on some time other than that person's birthdate.

This is an understandable request, although it seems kind of complex. Perhaps it can be handled simply with a "sequence_date" property that would override the start_date?

We've also had requests for what amount to "title" cards in the midst of timelines, as sort of chapter markers. This seems a lot harder, because we don't have a paradigm for displaying a marker for them in the timeline.

Is this live code, something to be done, or copy/paste cruft?

https://github.com/NUKnightLab/TimelineJS3/blob/master/source/js/timenav/VCO.TimeNav.js#L224-L232

Just keep running into it while refactoring for #4 and it's confusing me.

VCO.StorySlider is firing "slideAdded" in _onSlideRemoved()

In the "Make a Timeline' section of the website, the list of fonts and corresponding preview does not match the list of fonts in source/less/fonts.

Links are showing up in markers and in navigation elements.
See example: 0AmaVMvy285_tdHBod2s3aWFvZmlwVnZWcHFaZjBfdEE

To be revisited and iterated on after more use cases.
We talked about inferring an end date on hours, days, months and years based upon precision of start date.

We saw this in the Mark Twain demo on the test site

after #20

would make it easier to embed in Squarespace.com, maybe in Wordpress also?

Mainly for testing purposes but maybe more.

When using Timeline.goToId() and Timeline.goTo() as API functions, Timeline.current_id and Timeline.current_slide get out of sync. It also seems like this happens when just navigating through the slides normally using the built-in timeline controls.

Requested in https://knightlab.zendesk.com/entries/39132336-hosting-timeline-offline- and it has come up otherwise.

With no baseline dependency on jQuery, it seems possible. Handling fonts correctly would be complicated, and of course, people would have to specify media carefully.

There may be wrinkles I don't know about, but I think the markers don't look so good when they react to mouseover with a style change but are still behind other markers.

See:

We need to make a list of things developers might want and make sure we document it.

Feature for displaying time based on current time.
We could integrate momentjs

When the timeline resizes, the outer DocumentCloud viewer resizes, but the inner document doesn't.

testing with 'years.json' I saw this

Amazing debug tools, amiright

and I think we need to support IE8 because:

This is gonna be fun. This is probably the first of many chasing ie8 down the rabbit hole.

slides have durations. we forgot about that.

Change to:

{"scale": "...", "slides": [..]}

By default, the Google map embeds are 191px tall. There's some inheritance weirdness with "height: 100%" going on. I think we might need to programmatically determine the appropriate pixel height and set that on the iframe when we render the map.

Current columns:

• Start Date
• End Date
• Headline
• Text
• Media
• Media Credit
• Media Caption
• Media Thumbnail
• Type
• Tag

Challenges: supporting arbitrary formats in "date" column, including European (where Christmas is 25/12/2014) as well as the fact that values are not technically dates, at least in some cases (year-only or month/year only)

Tags are not implemented yet. (see #33)

Users have recently requested "alt" tags for media via ZenDesk, etc. Should we support them?

For cosmological time spans.
10,000 should be 10K
10,000,000 should be 10M
10,000,000,000 should be 10B
but these should be customizable most likely
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year#Symbols_y_and_yr

I'm guessing maybe abbreviate anything more than 5 characters?
Thoughts @JoeGermuska ?