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– Can’t enter events with same start and end date.
– ‘1 entry found’ label sometimes sticks above the timeline, even when you’ve searched for another event.
– The “search event” box seems to be broken. You must type in an event *exactly* as it is written in the timeline, in its entirety, including the appropriate upper case letters. For example, searching for “satellite” doesn’t find anything, nor does “satellite tv” or “phone”. Instead, you must search for “Satellite TV”. The auto-dropdown tries to solve this, but unless you start with the right word, it doesn’t help (as in “phones”).
– Also, searches with no results don’t feedback anything to the user.
– The order of events in the search box drop-down appears to be random (perhaps it’s the order they were created?). For example, the last item in the list is “DAB radio”, and event which is neither last alphabetically nor chronologically.
– It would be nice if pressing ENTER submitted the search request, instead of having to press “Go”.
– The flash frame seems to be scaled based on the screen resolution, not the size of the browser window. In both IE and Firefox, the resulting flash frame is extremely wide, and I needed to maximise the window to see all the controls.
– This also causes a knock-on effect on my dual-monitor setup, where even when maximised, the timeline is unusable on my secondary monitor (where my browser window opened up by default) because the flash frame width was set according to the resolution of my primary monitor which is much wider than the secondary.
– Sometimes the “fit-to-width” zoom (the left-most zoom button) pushes all the actual timeline content off the left-hand side of the frame, and as it’s “fit-to-width”, there’s no scrollbar to get it back. You have to zoom in a little to get the scroll bar back, then click the scroll bar to suddenly snap everything back in view.
– To reliably replicate, click max-zoom-out, scroll all the way to the right, then click “fit-to-width” zoom.
– After using some of the zooming controls, the event bar thumbnails go wrong and show the wrong images. At the moment, “i-Pod” is showing an X-Box thumbnail and the “Nintendo Wii” has become Wikipedia. At first I thought the event bars were overlapping, but the images can come from bars that aren’t even in the same horizontal line. Clicking on a bar to show the details always shows the correct image and text.
– To reliably replicate… refresh the page, then click “fit-to-width”, then use the zoom-in button “(+)”, then click “fit-to-width” again. Some or all of the bars will now have the wrong images.
– Depending on the zoom level, some of the dividing line dates show in “MMM YY” format, and others are “DD MM YY”, and others can be “DD MM YYYY” and bold. The former is arguably more readable, but I guess the others are helpful where the timeline’s precision is in days. Mixing two of the three together looks odd.
– Even at maximum zoom the “DD MM YYYY” dividers are in bold, but the “DD MM YY” are not.
– Is two days per divider the ideal maximum scale to use on a timeline that spans decades? Is this controlled by the author?
– At some zoom levels (mainly “fit-to-width”), the lines on the dividers (where the dates are displayed) go out of line with the dividers on the actual timeline (where the event bars are displayed).
– Several users have commented that the timeline title should be displayed much more prominently on the published timeline.