Wednesday, August 13, 2008

MIT's Simile Timeline

MIT's Simile Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAX widget for visualizing temporal information. Here it is trying to visualize my travel.xml data (where I've been):



Unfortunately, this won't display correctly in an RSS reader. The file timeline-api.js must (annoyingly) be included within the 'head' tags of a HTML page. So, I modified Blogger's template and my own mirror. However, you will also notice that Blogger fails to load travel.xml (the timeline is empty), whereas my mirror, which is on the same server as travel.xml and simply gets its feed from Blogger, loads it correctly. Ugh!