OGLE Event Timeline

[Bruno Rino]

Hi Allan,

Main comment: pretty impressive, all that in JavaScript...

Some usability comments from a monkey-test point of view:
- the even names clickable area is far bigger that necessary; it makes 
it difficult to one can only drag the top scrollbar using its bottom 
part (I started clicking on blank areas and that opened popups... it 
took me some time to realise what was going on)
- under IE6, the event names won't display on the bottom bar (and so 
they are clipped, and forever forgotten...). See July 6th. Indeed, 
Firefox shows more, but still can only show 7 out of 8 events (the last 
one doesn't fit... probably having "..." as last item would be better)
- even cooler: the marker (on the bottom bar) would change color when 
the event name is hovered (on the top bar)!

Bruno

Alasdair Allan wrote:
> All,
>
> I've been experimenting with various ways to display event data and 
> thought the following might interest people,
>
>   http://vo.astro.ex.ac.uk/ogle/cgi-bin/timeline.cgi
>
> although be warned, the page is fairly javascript heavy so might take 
> a while to load the first time round.
>
> At the top of the page is an event timeline, there are two 
> independently scrollable bars (the upper in days, the lower in 
> months), you can click and drag the timeline to show previous events. 
> The view of the top scrollable area is represented by a light grey box 
> on the bottom (month view) area. Until you get a feel for the 
> interface you might want to just drag around the top bar as things 
> will move slower (days, rather than months).
>
> Each event is represented by a marker, and clicking on the marker will 
> bring up additional data and links for that event (in the month view 
> the marker is represented by a small blue bar rather than a discrete 
> data point).
>
> The OGLE event data is also displayed normally in table form below the 
> timeline interface.
>
> Comments?
>
> Al.
>