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I used a similar technique on my web-based timeline-software. The aim was for the timeline to work at almost any size. Not quite perfected it but getting close.

If you want to play with the resizing, you can use this link - http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-bas...

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That app would be really cool if you could visualize data that imports from other sources. Imagine documenting your facebook pictures instantly through time via the site's meta data and links to the pictures themselves, etc.

Well done. I noticed that the navigation gets borked when the screen gets really small. I think the choice here is to show a different navigation menu (rollover menus?).

It could also benefit from better copy. "Everything from a timeline's colour scheme and date range to its background image and intro text can be changed in the Settings tab." -- a wall of badly-punctuated text, really unappealing.

Kudos for the app though, it does look nice. More auto-importing and some iPhone action please :)

Not wanting to be confrontational but what are you talking about. There is nothing wrong with the punctuation of that text. It might not be Dostoyevskian in its elegance but it is grammatically correct.

I've lost my breath trying to read it... would use a comma or two. It's also completely useless and out of context -- that's a help box, not a sales pitch.

This exists, look up MemoLane. They're a startup which is exactly like this but for your social network postings.

Of course, I am aware of Memolane. Significantly different product than ours. They are aimed at creating a timeline-based life history by importing all your social media.

We're aimed at allowing people create highly-customisable timelines on any subject for presentations. embedding on websites etc. We 're much more like TimeGlider, Preceden and BeeDoc's Timeline 3D than Memoland.

Sorry Brackin. I see you were replying to alttab, not me. So ignore previous post. :)

I like the visual rhythm of days.

But just letting you know, background is way too busy :) Text is hardly readable in some parts. I have no idea what's going on and I'm a power-user who designed and used different types of UIs from MS-DOS shells to Kinect-based NUIs.

Text isn't selectable on the items in Safari which I think is a big deal. Hyperlinks on top right aren't underlined, I didn't even know they were hyperlinks before I hovered on them.

It's like a splash of colors of all sorts, different fonts and text in my face.

The [More->] windows scroll too slowly. A full finger movement of the wheel only advances the text by a single line. It feels sluggish and frustrating.

We are aware of this issue but it is difficult to solve because each mouse works differently. For instance, the apple touch mice cause scrolling many times faster than the average mouse on a Windows machine.

If we speed up the scrolling for the average mouse, then scrolling will be ridiculously (unusably) fast with the Apple Touch mouse.

We have to achieve a balance -we may not have achieved the best balance but that is quite tricky to do. Bloody technology!

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