CODEBASE: Big think redesign of the vertical timeline with Alan

[chrislkeller]

CODEBASE: Big think redesign of the vertical timeline with Alan

June 25, 2015 at 11:49AM


REPO You're gonna make my finally figure out how to get node up and running. * RE: I did not add back in the Ordering or Expanding actions. * I think this is fine. Ordering can be sold as editorial judgement and not needed for the user. Would love to know if anyone ever really expanded. I know we never set any to be collapsed. * RE: I actually have the same feelings about the Linking and Sharing of specific events. ?? * There isn't a lot of data to support anyone navigating to a specific link - a couple hundred page views out of 50-60,000. The former online editor in me likes the feature though. If only I could get a sustained effort to link to particular events in a timeline from our daily news stories. * I could always implement on a KPCC fork. I'd take hints on where in the script this makes the most sense to add. * RE: I have taken out Tabletop/G-Spreadsheet support. * I'm torn on this. I'm not opposed, but am thinking of my less technically-inclined colleagues and web producers who don't have dev environments. * For them, TT was a kind of training wheels. I'd deploy a shell, add the spreadsheet key and they could see the timeline taking shape. I need to get the current project - NODE! NODE! - and think through this part. * At this point it's three years before Google changes everything about spreadsheets again. And the proxy issue - we never ran into throttling, but remember the issue if a user hadn't signed into or didn't have a gmail account they couldn't see the project? For that I like basing things off flat csv or flat json files. * I have a python script to convert a csv to json for the timeline data and for the metadata. Seems a node-based build tool would be possible? * RE: Do we want to provide a hosted version / web interface for this? * I'm with John. I'm embellishing, but hosting moves a shop from providing legos to servicing software and customers. Though I'd argue we could host a mechanism to convert csv to json, but with Mr. Data Converter...? * RE: We had talked about a mini-timeline (way-finding) feature. Does this still sound interesting? * I still kind of like it... Alan, Louise and Noah - this is great work and I apologize if I failed to help as much as you expected me to? I'll work on getting the project up and running and let you know via issues if I run into any obstacles... Chris K.