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What would it take to incorporate a flash xspf player for each item on the
timeline that contains audio?

I think this would require some server side processing to create the xspf
playlist files.

Dale Hobson suggests, I "drop a line to Geoff Gaudreault of Reverbiage. His
globe/flash player widget for NPR top stories could definitely benefit from
the portable API query-building work you've done here. Map any topic/query?
Killer."

Could this also be used with google maps?  Would this be a matter of KML /
GeoRSS output?

clean up semicolons  in qglite.js

check other nprtimeline.js as well

(see if there is a javascript validator out there that I can use besides
aptana/eclipse).

Incorporate some of the nifty features from the BOSS API and Daylife
timeline API: http://tinyurl.com/6nvetv (suggestion compliments of andy carvin)

in the timeline popup, how about not-reinventing the wheel and using NPR's
html widgets as part of the display?  (thanks for the inspiration Jason :)

The tests in lines 220 - 278 here:

http://code.google.com/p/npr-simile-timeline/source/browse/trunk/qglite.js?spec=
svn80&r=80

are still putting in a comma after the ids for topic, program and series. 
Even if there is only one id selected.

This is not breaking anything, so that's good.  The browsers all seem to be
forgiving of this, as is the NPR API not making any complaints.

I'll add this in as a bug.  My thinking is that I may need to use a switch
statement instead.  It's likely there is a simpler way to do this.

Create an option to display a list of stories along with the timeline. 
Include;

* date
* title
* link to page at NPR

Have this as an optional radio button (as part of the QGL... or in the
frame where timeline settings are managed?).

Dale (and others have noted) there is a browser rendering issue in IE7.
It looks like an extra pixel showing in the individual story headline div or
a baseline positioning problem; the top of the headline continuation is
visible.

Dale Hobson asks "does the Simile timeline give you any control over the
timeline scale? It shows 9-10 weeks in your implementation. For well-covered
topics a range of 2-3 weeks might work better. Some widget-level control
over this would be useful."

the ability to add a search term (thanks Dale :)

the ability to select multiple topics (using the and boolean operator so a
query with books & technology will return the intersect of those lists)

Integrate the NPR StationFinder:

http://www.npr.org/api/stationFinder.php

The NPR Station Finder allows users to pass in zip codes, city/state,
station call letters or latitude/longitude information, and we will return
a list of stations that can be heard in that location.

The station results also include key information about the stations,
including links to their home page, schedule page, audio streams, RSS
feeds, podcasts, station logo and more (possibility for branding of the NPR
Timeline?)

Does this mean that stories can be retrieved from the database by city,
state, zipcode or latitude/longitude?

The goal is to use the hosting service at code.google.com to serve all
files for the application from this location:

http://npr-simile-timeline.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ 

Based on the suggestions outlined here:

http://vegdave.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/hosting-your-javascript-based-app-on-cod
egooglecom/

The mime-type property has to be set on all javascript and html files.

There is a script called example.js which, when included, places a text
filter and some text highlighters on the page.  I have found these to be
very helpful when narrowing down results. The file is in the src tree for
simile-timeline. 

I have implemented it and it works great!

Thanks for this!  I will no longer have to be disappointed when someone
refers me to a story, or I want to go back and find one.  An excellent
application of this tool.

1. would like selection lists created for topics, programs, columns and series

2.  populate these selection lists from xml lists, fed through yahoo pipes.

Daniel Jacobson suggests: to really make a widget viral, you should have 
some sort of embed option within the widget itself.  that is, you dont know 
where people are going to put the timeline or how they are going to do it.  
so, to ensure that people can lift it from whereever it is, you should have 
an embed link available in the object that contains the code that allows 
users to pick it up.  this might not be easy if you dont have that kind of 
control over the timeline.  you may need to create a flash wrapper that 
contains the timeline.  

Replace links to locally-hosted common JavaScript libraries:

* prototype
* script.aculo.us
* (maybe) jQuery

with the technique outlined here:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlibs/

the ability to indicate the number of items you want returned

the ability to add a date range

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. When I try to chose a date using the calendar
2. I cannot click on the x in the top right hand corner
3. It seems to be covered up by other parts of the form (Number of
Results/Start Number)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load timeline generator in IE 7

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Got the following error:
Line: 24
Error: 'parent.parent.qgliteFrame.document.selectionForm.queryBox' is null
or not an object

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?


Please provide any additional information below.

Dale suggests "if you could aggregate from an array of feed URLs (from
different sources), that could truly kick ass."

See notes on the wiki: 

http://code.google.com/p/npr-simile-timeline/wiki/rsstotimeline

Merge the Timeline Widget Generator with the latest Query Generator Lite /
NPR SIMILE Timeline.

This way, when someone creates a query and views it on screen, they are
also presented with two text areas:

1) to grab the header code
2) to grab the body code

Need to also include some timeline formatting options (maybe in a separate
frameset - to keep QGL clean and usable in other mashups).