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MinnPost / jquery-vertical-timeline

jQuery plugin of: A beautiful vertical timeline made with Tabletop.js, Isotope.js & Handerlbarz.js. A collaboration between Balance Media and WNYC/John Keefe.
http://code.minnpost.com/jquery-vertical-timeline/
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Seeing the timeline in the browser #13

Closed bottari closed 10 years ago

bottari commented 10 years ago

Hi MinnPost guys,

First of all, thanks so much for this awesome tool. I'm with the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, and I'd like to adapt this timeline for one of our upcoming stories.

I'm just having a problem seeing the timelines when I open the index.html file on my computer from the jquery-vertical-timeline folder. I simply downloaded and installed all the necessary files, and when I go to open the file to see the examples the space where the timeline should be is blank.

screen shot 2014-08-20 at 4 45 18 pm

It might be something with how I set up and downloaded all the files, or how I'm looking at it on my computer, I'm not sure. I haven't changed or edited any of the files, so I'm just confused why it shows up like this. Do you have any ideas?

Otherwise, it seems very easy to use this tool and hopefully I can get past this little hangup quickly.

Thanks again for open-sourcing your code, -Michael

zzolo commented 10 years ago

Does the demo page work for you? http://code.minnpost.com/jquery-vertical-timeline/

How are you opening the file in the browser? Does the URL look like file///somedthing? If so, then the issue is that you are not using some sort of HTTP server to serve up the files and browsers have limitations on how you can get data from different places. The development stuff will get a really basic HTTP server: https://github.com/MinnPost/jquery-vertical-timeline#running

bottari commented 10 years ago

Ah, yes, I'm just running it through my computer. I'll go through Grunt.

Great. Thanks so much again, I really appreciate the work you're doing.