[HN Gopher] Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a grap...
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       Show HN: Transform any Wikipedia article into a graphical timeline
        
       Author : r4chna
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2022-12-01 17:48 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | lastofthemojito wrote:
       | Aren't timelines usually ordered? Maybe it's a rendering issue
       | (Firefox 106 on a Mac), but I'm seeing 1992 at the top of the
       | timeline, then, as I scroll down, dates from 2021, 2022, 2021,
       | 2022, 2030, 2022, in that order.
        
         | lucideer wrote:
         | Sounds like a rendering issue. I'm also on Firefox on Mac but I
         | see them in correct order. They are however displayed in
         | alternating left-right columns which I guess could mean there's
         | some hackish element ordering behind the scenes.
        
         | wanderingstan wrote:
         | I'm also getting this strange ordering on mobile Safari.
        
         | yawnxyz wrote:
         | It's just a bug in the timeLine code -- this would fix it:
         | return timeline.sort( ( a, b ) => b.unixTime - a.unixTime )
        
       | JKCalhoun wrote:
       | Love to see a timeline of world history. I have no idea as to how
       | that would work.
       | 
       | When you are "zoomed out" do you get clumped eras like
       | "Victorian" or "Age of Enlightenment"? Or since those are region-
       | specific, does it just give you the regular spacing and
       | boringness of "centuries"? Perhaps region does need to figure
       | into the timeline so for the European belt you could still go
       | with "Industrial Revolution" or "Edwardian" -- that would overlap
       | in areas with "Meiji" for Japan.
       | 
       | It also occurs to me that art had its own "eras" as well. Perhaps
       | banding by geophysical location alone is rather limiting.
       | 
       | You ought to be able to zoom in of course and Wikipedia links to
       | major wars (for example) appear -- zoom in further and Wikipedia
       | links to specific battles...
       | 
       | But then there are people as well: scientists, monarchs,
       | explorers, artists....
       | 
       | The whole scale of the thing makes my head hurt. But if done
       | "right" it would be, to me, the perfect interface to Wikipedia.
        
       | rwhyan wrote:
       | Looks cool, but text is severely crammed (~10 characters per
       | line) on mobile which makes it hard to read.
        
       | olah_1 wrote:
       | Looks cool, but I get a like of CORS errors in the console.
       | Doesn't work.
       | 
       | https://winkjs.org/showcase-timeline/
        
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