Timeline concept

[captainbrosset]

Playing with the idea of a timeline for features, discussed with @Elchi3.

A few work in progress screenshots below.

Grid

Font-synthesis

Async clipboard

We might need to leverage a graphics library to deal with overlapping labels, and to make things generally nicer.

[Elchi3]

This is great! 🎉

We might need to leverage a graphics library to deal with overlapping labels, and to make things generally nicer.

Or use SVG? I wrote MDN's inheritance diagram in SVG years ago: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGTextElement (source)

[captainbrosset]

This will need fixing with the recent change where certain versions can contain the ≤ character. For example the sub-sup feature.

[captainbrosset]

See acafc29.

[captainbrosset]

Future idea: also use data from browser-specs to add timeline key events from specs. Ideally, if we were also tracking dates for explainers, and intent to prototype/ship emails, that would be great.

[wbamberg]

We might need to leverage a graphics library to deal with overlapping labels, and to make things generally nicer.

Or use SVG? I wrote MDN's inheritance diagram in SVG years ago: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SVGTextElement (source)

Mermaid supports timeline diagrams, I wonder if that could help?

[captainbrosset]

That's awesome! Thank you for sharing, Will.

[rviscomi]

I hacked on a similar concept a while ago, figured I'd share it here: https://rviscomi.github.io/timebase/. It doesn't show the timeline for an individual feature, but it arranges Baseline moments for all features onto one big timeline, past and future.