jQuery Unscroll Timeline

Contact: Paul Ford ford@ftrain.com

Goal

Create a general, accessible embeddable timeline for the web using jQuery. Goes vertical as well as horizontal.

• Basic features [proposed]
  • Lays out arbitrary HTML5 objects, including embeds, on a large grid without overlap
  • Consumes live JSON or accessible HTML from multiple sources
  • Scrolls vertically/horizontally
  • Objects on screen are POHTML, remaining in jQuery ecosystem
  • Zooms
  • Parallax overview

Current Status

This code is barely started pre-alpha and shouldn't be used for anything ever.

Directory Structure

• timeline/ - actual timeline
• submodules/ - submodule code

Prior Art and Features

Simile Timeline

• http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/
• Old reliable: Old, reliable
• Spans/durations (perhaps as bg extenders -- see http://www.stripegenerator.com/
• Parallax-scrolling mini-timeline
• Not jQuery

jQuery Timeline

• https://github.com/danielgwood/jquery-timeline.git
• New, pre-alpha
• Nice scrolling with cursor keys
• Clean,n o pictures
• No auto-arranger or filler
• Reliant on Canvas--less, hacky but means less ability to play with HTML/DOM-driven jQuery plugins.

Tasks and Bugs

See: https://github.com/ftrain/jquery-unscroll-timeline/issues