No events are visible in the timeline I have created on my site, if I view it with Safari 1.3.2 (v312.6). However, using this browser I have no problem viewing timelines on the official SIMILE demo site. So I assume the problem comes from the module. In Safari 2.0.4 (409.3) my timeline displays properly.

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franskuipers commented

Safari 3.0.4 on Windows works perfect (reported by one of my users)

There are some treads on the apple/safari forums with indicate there are javascript problems with v312 on MAC.

Some treads are: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1429799&tstart=0 and http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1441111

A quote from this last one:

The above is becoming more common with Safari 1.3.2, as this version of Safari is getting quite old (in Internet reality terms). It has not been coded to handle/render more recent evolutionary coding changes in Java and JavaScript, which now seems to have spilled over to Google Maps.

Apple's upgrade path for Safari has been via its OS (Tiger/Leopard) since Safari is tightly integrated with other related applications, such as Mail, Address Book etc. Hence, changes in one mean changes in others. By contrast, 3rd party browsers such as Firefox, Camino etc. have chosen a different path, one that makes their browser a stand-alone application, i.e not inter-dependent on other applications for operation.

Is there a possibility to upgrade your Safari & test it with that one?
Or can you use Firefox 2.x?

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pathscollide commented

Hi, thanks for the reply!

My point is that with the older version of Safari I have no problem viewing the original timeline widget as demoed at http://simile.mit.edu/timeline/. It's the Drupal Timeline module that isn't displaying properly. So that's why I'm assuming it's an implementation problem in the Drupal module rather than in the original Timeline tool (and hence why I posted an issue here rather than in the SIMILE bug tracker).

As indicated in your quote, "Apple's upgrade path for Safari has been via its OS," so it's likely that people who are still using Panther (like I am, on one of my Macs), are still using that older version of Safari. I'm concerned those users won't be able to view my timeline.

Of course, I have no problem viewing the timeline in more recent browsers such as IE7 and Firefox 2.x.

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franskuipers commented

Hi, thank you for clearing this up more.
I understand now that while you can see the timelines on simile, you don't see them in an drupal site. Can you please try it on frans.nabuurtest.com/timeline , I have made a small patch to the timeline.js of our module.

So the problem should be in our timeline.js . Are you able to give of a trace from a javascript console or some debuging information? It will be difficult to solve this bug if nobody with some javascipt knowledge AND a MAC with this version can debug the script.

but lets try it.....

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xamanu commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

closing because of inactivity.