Drawing a Timeline with jquery.

In 2008, I wrote a XUL-based interface displaying a timeline (http://...freebase-and-history-of-sciences.html).

Here I've played with jquery to display another timeline:

html

There is no json data: everyting is stored in the HTML. The years are surrounded by a <span/> element having a css class "start/end".

javascript

We use jquery to sort and layout each event.

CSS

A basic CSS for my timeline

Result

It's far from being perfect. I don't know how to handle the images overflowing the "div".

That's it,

Pierre