One of the things I've wanted to do in Silverlight for a really long time is create a timeline infographic. Not for anything more than the practice really, but I just think that the different ways of presenting information via an interactive timeline are kind of interesting to see.
The majority of my work involves creating Silverlight applications, and I love it. So imagine how happy I was when a timeline project came in. This one was interesting because it was a conversion from a Flash version to an updated Silverlight (1.0) version. The company I work for had created the Flash version, so we still had all the base assets used in the timeline, which was helpful.
The schedule was a little challenging - I didn't have a lot of time to complete the work in - and the new version lives in a template that was a significantly narrower width than the Flash version, so there were some adjustments to make.
In the end, I was very pleased with the result. Interestingly enough, the overall performance of the Silverlight piece seems smoother than the Flash version. I had expected the Silverlight one to bog down a bit as I added text, due to the antialiasing, but that didn't happen.
Anyways, for those of you that are interested, here is the original Flash version:
Flash CEO Summit timeline
The updated Silverlight version is here:
Silverlight CEO Summit timeline
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May 12th, 2008 at 11:44 am
The Silverlight version does look smoother. The text scrolling on the flash version changed the appearance when slowly scrolling. Also like the fast ability of the videos without have to wait for them to fully load.
May 12th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
[...] 129 Post: Approved at: May-12-2008Timeline change from Flash to Silverlighthttp://designwithsilverlight.com/2008/05/10/timeline-infographics/Dynamically Creating User Controls with [...]
May 12th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
[...] the BBC used DeepZoom to promote Radio 1’s big weekend… can we say “Silverlight Downloads”??
Timeline Infographics Jeff didn’t send this to me, but this is a very nice piece of work. He has some information on his [...]
March 4th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Hello, I’m working with silverlight and I would like to do a timeline with more than 2 lines but I only can get 2 lines, does anybody know how to solve it??
Best regards,
Marc