I'm looking for an application which will allow me to write a sort of history. It's a bit difficult to describe but I'll do my best.
What I want is an application which will provide a timeline with divisions of days, months and years as required with the ability to write quite large chunks of text by the timeline. Then, if possible, I'd like to be able to have hyperlinks in the text that would lead out to other descriptions etc. or even to other parts of the timeline.
I want the timeline to be flexible so that in one place a day might take up as much space as a year does elsewhere on the line, I don't want a calendar type fixed layout.
Basically it's a set of interactive web pages with the addition of the timeline 'in the middle'.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? It doesn't have to be web based by the way but I suspect that a web application is most likely.
This probably isn't a very good answer, but if I was doing a project like that I would probably mark up the 'chrono-textual' data in XML and write some XSLT stylesheets to transform it to whatever presentation format I needed.
I'll get my coat....
Richard
On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 15:52:52 +0100, "Chris Green" chris@areti.co.uk said:
I'm looking for an application which will allow me to write a sort of history. It's a bit difficult to describe but I'll do my best.
What I want is an application which will provide a timeline with divisions of days, months and years as required with the ability to write quite large chunks of text by the timeline. Then, if possible, I'd like to be able to have hyperlinks in the text that would lead out to other descriptions etc. or even to other parts of the timeline.
I want the timeline to be flexible so that in one place a day might take up as much space as a year does elsewhere on the line, I don't want a calendar type fixed layout.
Basically it's a set of interactive web pages with the addition of the timeline 'in the middle'.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? It doesn't have to be web based by the way but I suspect that a web application is most likely.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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What I want is an application which will provide a timeline with divisions of days, months and years as required with the ability to write quite large chunks of text by the timeline. Then, if possible, I'd like to be able to have hyperlinks in the text that would lead out to other descriptions etc. or even to other parts of the timeline.
I want the timeline to be flexible so that in one place a day might take up as much space as a year does elsewhere on the line, I don't want a calendar type fixed layout.
Basically it's a set of interactive web pages with the addition of the timeline 'in the middle'.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? It doesn't have to be web based by the way but I suspect that a web application is most likely.
Have a look at www.w3c.org - *EVERYTHING* you'll need to know is there - with the possible exception of which program to do it in.
Personally, I'd suggest either straight HTML or a blend of HTML and CSS.
Chris Green writes:
What I want is an application which will provide a timeline with divisions of days, months and years as required with the ability to write quite large chunks of text by the timeline. Then, if possible, I'd like to be able to have hyperlinks in the text that would lead out to other descriptions etc. or even to other parts of the timeline.
I don't know if this is any help but what you're trying to do doesn't sound that disimilar from project management tool, Gantt charts, etc. There are plenty of tools for these (I'm no expert in them, though.)
They probably mostly use linear time representations, though (someone who knows more project management stuff might be more help - most project planning has similar issue in that some jobs take hours and others months, so linear representations aren't ideal.)
Mark Rogers, More Solutions Ltd :: Tel: 0845 45 89 555 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Green" chris@areti.co.uk To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:52 PM Subject: [ALUG] Looking for calender/timeline/chronology application
I'm looking for an application which will allow me to write a sort of history. It's a bit difficult to describe but I'll do my best.
I want the timeline to be flexible so that in one place a day might take up as much space as a year does elsewhere on the line, I don't want a calendar type fixed layout.
Basically it's a set of interactive web pages with the addition of the timeline 'in the middle'.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions for what I could use? It doesn't have to be web based by the way but I suspect that a web application is most likely.
-- Chris Green (chris@areti.co.uk)
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
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