Description
An experiment in generating dynamic, useful timelines from a collection of date points using javascript. Date strings are parsed using the javascript Date object.
It works in Opera now!
Data is of the form (note SPACE COLON SPACE)
[date/timestamp] : [text on 1 line]
[date/timestamp] : [text on 1 line]
Usage
Create a container tag
<DIV id="[DIVID]" class="timeline">
Parsing timeline text
input_to_events(txtblock)
Creating and populating the timeline object
new_timeline(DIV_ID, events)
Example
Click and drag the timeline to scroll
Double click to zoom
The seed data:
| 1939 | : | WWII Starts |
| 1939 | : | Germany invades poland |
| baddate | : | this is a bad record |
| June 22, 1941 | : | Germany invades the Soviet Union |
| Dec 1941 | : | Japan attacks US |
| June 1942 | : | atomic bomb project given to army |
| September 30, 1944 | : | Document 1 Memorandum by Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| July 16, 1945 | : | First Trinity test |
| August 6, 1945 | : | little boy dropped |
