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I am in search for jquery timeline plugin with years on the horizontal axis.
I have seen one in the past. I am not able to find it. Did search for jquery timeline plugins.

Here are 2 that I had stored in my bookmarks. They aren't jquery plugins, but they could be adapted to be jquery plugins. Eric Meyer's structured timeline and timeplot. I also found this service called Tiki-Toki which offers timelines as a web service.
Or you could just use something like HighCharts if that will work for your situation.

Have a look at this http://timeline.verite.co/. Its real good. Plus you could have JSON or Google Spreadsheets as data sources.

There’s jQuery Timelinr, if you need only years.
For more data, esp. scientific use, have a look at Timeglider or SIMILE Timeline (without jQuery).

TimeGlider may be useful, and free for non-commercial use.

Two more:
Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery at Tutorialzine
Dipity, to create your timeline online

I developed a simple jQuery plugin for this purpose, although it displays the years (or century or decade--anything of your choosing) on the vertical axis. See http://www.technotarek.com/timeliner/ and http://www.technotarek.com/timeliner/timeliner.html

A great timeline control that I have been using recently is the CHAP Almende Timeline. It is simple on the surface and to use, but offers plenty of customisability. Seems fairly lightweight, and is able to handle large amounts of events on most browsers (for some reason some browsers choke a bit on large data sets when you zoom out too far). This works quite nicely on tablet touch screens too, if that is useful to you.
CHAP Almende timeline is also regularly updated by Jos de Jong at https://github.com/almende/chap-links-library and he is pretty quick to address any issues.

For anyone that will end up on this post, like me, on its search to jquery timeline plugins, (although it is an old question):
http://timeline.verite.co/
http://timeglider.com/jquery/
http://www.csslab.cl/ejemplos/timelinr/latest/horizontal.html
Cheers!

I made this one, but this is just for navigation, I'm not sure what's the use case of the timeline you're looking for:
jQuery-Timeline Plugin

http://timeline.verite.co/ is good time Line JS

You can try this enhanced jquery timelinr, it integrated jquery timelinr, cufon and animate.css. Good for simple timeline show.

Check this out for various Timeline JavaScript libraries: http://functionn.blogspot.com/search/label/timelines#.ULj4aU_Mjs4
Alternatively, I would recommend you using:
http://functionn.blogspot.com/2012/03/timeline-javascript-library-for.html

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So I have been having lots of fun playing with SIMILE Timeline, but unfortunately, it appears to be all but abandoned (most recently closed ticket May 2009) and riddled with memory leaks, especially when you are dynamically loading and unloading events (which is especially true in my case).
I am a novice in JavaScript, so debugging these leaks is going to be more than a little complicated. Before I dive head-first into fixing a problem in a language I don't understand or a codebase I have never looked at, I want to know if there is anything out there that compares to the feature-set that I can get with Timeline:
Multiple events on one band
instead of having 10, 100, 1000 rows of data, use the space available to fit multiple events on one line when possible
Scrollable
CSS styling down to the specific event
I can specify a specific icon, font, etc., for each event if I need to. This is great for highlighting error events or interesting events
filtering/searching/highlighting
highlighting a band of time or point in time
This would be a vertical band that shows a 'now' moment, or a band that covers a time period's start and end time
I know that alot of these features can probably be put into things such as Flot or HighCharts, but these things were next to free for me to use in Timeline, so I'm weighing the cost/benefit of whether it is easier to fix a memory leak or roll out 3 - 4 features on some library that doesn't have it. My gut says "fix the leak, it's easier", but I would like to know if anyone can show me something that might be 90% of the way there with a low barrier of entry to getting that other 10%.

Maybe you can use the Timeline from the (open source) CHAP Links Library, developed by Almende.
http://almende.github.com/chap-links-library/timeline.html
Have a look at the examples to see what you can do with the Timeline. It is quite flexible, you can choose your create your own layout and use your own CSS/HTML in each individual event.

Check out Timeglider (see http://timeglider.com/jquery/) which is an open source (MIT), JavaScript (uses jQuery) scrolling timeline under active development. It meets your first 4 requirements I believe but I am unclear about the specifics of your 5th requirement. I have only done some simple experiments with Timeglider and don't know it very well but maybe this is a potential solution for you.

We needed the Simile Timeline at Lab 21k so we took the source code, cleaned it up and published it using bower. So you don't need an alternative anymore.
https://github.com/Lab21k/standalone-timeline/

The Timeline project is very much alive, they just don't use Google Code anymore. The Simile widgets are now hosted on a dedicated homepage, here is the homepage and documentation of Timeline. Keep in mind that the links on the page are not consistent, many pages still link to the outdated wikis on Google Code and the mit.edu wiki pages. Keep that in mind when checking the wiki.
There is also an active mailing list on Google Groups.

This is probably the best one around right now:
http://timeline.verite.co/

I'm actually working with the Simile Timeline in a project of my called Event Viewpoint. I've fixed quite a lot of bugs and enhanced it with many contributions that I have found online including images for the event, a zoom bar, and some additional events.
It is a brilliant piece of work just needs someone to take the time to update it and make it more current. That is currently out of scope for my project, but if I have time in the next year or so I will start to enhance it.
It would really be great if people could revive the project, add touch events and so on.
If someone needs the source I am willing to provide it.

They’re still very active. David Karger makes frequent updates. Now they have the version 3.0.
You can find reference documentation here:
http://simile-widgets.org/wiki/Reference_Documentation_for_Exhibit.
The code is here: https://github.com/simile-widgets/exhibit

I don't know exactly what you want, but i'm working on this jquery plugin that it's being used in a website with dynamically managed events.

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Anyone have experience with game development using javascript and the html5 canvas element?
So far I have found two libraries, are either of these worth using?
http://tommysmind.com/ (XNA Port)
http://gamequery.onaluf.org/ (jquery plugin)
Does anyone have any other resources?

You can also use Lime JS - very promising HTML5 game developement framework.
http://www.limejs.com

A bit late to this ;-) but here are some current or emerging frameworks
Aves http://www.dextrose.com/en/projects/aves-engine
Akihabara http://www.kesiev.com/akihabara/
Rokcet Pack http://rocketpack.fi/
Effect Games http://www.effectgames.com/effect/
these are probably overkill for the kind of games you're mostly referring to.
Also, take a look at Sencha Touch
http://www.sencha.com/
There's a very slick solataire example here
http://touchsolitaire.mobi/app/
HTH

impact js looks really cool, http://impactjs.com/ but it has $99 price tag :( But it comes with an awesome level editor so it might be worth the price.

For basic 2d games i would use either impact or Crafty
Crafty is open source, but impact has a cool level editor.
All the others that i have tested are either lacking in some areas or too expensive. Aves and Rocket has been bought by Zynga and Disney.

Have a look at Processing.js. Maybe you can use it for 2D drawing and user interaction.

You can use for example this one port http://cocos2d-javascript.org/ for game dev.

Another library you could look at is google forplay. While not a true javascript/html5 library it compiles to javascript from java much in a way like GWT.

I have not built a game engine but rather a classic game in its near-entirety, plus a few simple animations, into my Tetris clone.
Its most important feature in my opinion is the effectiveness of the multitouch control scheme when you load up the page in iOS or Android. The idea is for it to be intuitive enough that I shouldn't have to show instructions for the user to figure out how to play it.

Try our HTML5 game engine, Construct 2 (http://www.scirra.com). We have an extensive free edition available so you can play around with it!
It's an event based system which means you don't need to know programming to get going in it. However it is extendable with our Javascript SDK so anyone can write their own plugins to extend it's functionality.
A few great games have started to pop up on our arcade now as proof that it works well!
http://www.scirra.com/arcade

I have personal experience of developing a HTML 5 browser game with Dead Earth! I found that I did not need to use any specific libaries other than JQuery along with a few Jquery plugins.
I used the Canvas and the Audio elements in Dead Earth. But I did not create any fancy 3D graphics I only drew shapes and images, colouring said shapes, drew lines etc.
I imagine if you are doing something more complicated than this you may need a library otherwise why make your app more bloated than it needs to be?

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Several frameworks for writing web-based desktop-like applications have recently appeared. E.g. SproutCore and Cappuccino. Do you have any experience using them? What's your impression? Did I miss some other framework?
I've seen related questions on StackOverflow, but they generate mostly standard answers like "use jQuery or MochiKit or MooTools or Dojo or YUI". While some people give non-standard answers, they seem to have little experience using this frameworks.
Can anyone share real experience developing destop-like apps for the browser?

To my point of view, Cappuccino is an example of what NOT to do. They implemented another language on top of JavaScript, which already bring slowliness while browser developer are already fighting hard against, and, what is worst, they don't rely at all on the browser widget, breaking all the user navigation experience. For example, they implemented their own scrollbar, with the main drawback that using mouse wheel won't work anymore!
I really prefer ExtJS's approach which give you rich widgets while keeping the UI as close as possible from the browser.

Due to the speed issues these high-level frameworks cause for many larger (as in: non-trivial) applications, we only use plain jQuery. In our tests, all high-level frameworks broke down in situations where there are many draggable objects or many drop targets, and in situation where long lists (with >1000 entries) were shown on screen.
Part of this is due to issues with IE6 and IE7 (where performance suddenly starts to deteriorate dramatically after DOM trees reach a certain complexity), but part is due to the overhead these frameworks generate.
So I would not recommend any of the high-level frameworks. My recommendation would be to use jQuery and work with the DOM directly.
Some tips to improve performance:
Where possibly, render HTML on the
server.
Keep the HTML as simple as
possible.
Avoid having many elements
in the DOM tree.
Avoid recursive
table structure (IE suddenly stops
showing them after relatively few
levels of nesting).
Remove invisible
elements from the DOM tree.
Remove
things from the DOM tree before
changing them and then re-insert
them, rather than changing them
while they're in the tree.

I also, as gizmo, recommend EXT JS. Their license has changed and it may not work for all, but it's still a good choice if you want to do stuff like a desktop.
Here's their example page for a desktop environment: http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/desktop/desktop.html

Apple is demonstrating that sproutcore does work, although it's hard to estimate how well it works. Currently I build web apps with a home-grown set of libraries, duplicating a set of functionality from our windows software suite (but adapted to a web interface). Up to now I've avoided frameworks particularly for the reason that I didn't want the bloat. The problem with this approach is that I waste an inordinate amount of time duplicating functionality that's already in the frameworks, and I feel that over time I'm going to approximate towards something that resembles these frameworks.
Because of this I've been experimenting with implementing a web app in extjs, and it was a surprisingly nice experience. The performance is excellent, and ease of development is quite high because their component set is good for actually building apps, not just for fancy demos (a common problem in web toolkits). I would definitely recommend it if you are interested in building desktop-like web apps.
The problem of scaling it up obviously still applies, but honestly, I feel that it's better to use a toolkit in situations where scale is not that important, and to fallback to basic javascript only where you need to (premature optimization being the root of all evil). Extjs can layer on top of prototype or jquery, so this approach is definitely workable. Avoiding too much content in the DOM is usually an approach of loading and unloading on-demand. For example, there's a third party extension to the extjs grid class that allows scrolling through a million row dataset by being clever about loading and unloading data.

You might consider using GWT-Ext (uses Ext underneath) might be a very clean solution if you're going to use Java.

I like qooxdoo, although it takes the OOP approach of JS rather than the prototypal it is a solid framework and has a lot of features.

I don't have any experience with SproutCore or Capuccino. But have made attempts to use Dojo on top of Django for this kind of work. Can only tell you it's slow and buggy.

extjs might be of help. http://dev.extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/

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Any suggestion for a JavaScript interactive drawing library? Just need to draw lines, polygons, texts of different colors. IE/Firefox/Opera/Safari compatible.
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Raphael is pretty cool for that, and works across browsers since it uses VML (for MSIE) and SVG (for everything else).

John Resig's Processing.js is a nice framework for that.

You can use the canvas object directly to draw in 2D. IE requires the excanvas library.
http://developer.mozilla.org/En/Drawing_Graphics_with_Canvas

Try http://www.walterzorn.de/en/jsgraphics/jsgraphics_e.htm. It's the best I've found (without resorting to SVG) and works in most browsers without add-ins.

Drawing text with the canvas tag is a big pain. Your options are to use regular divs absolutely positioned in the right places, or find/write a font layout engine (example), or wait for a new standard to be implemented that lets you draw text. SVG deals with this much better.
In IE you have ExplorerCanvas to simulate the canvas API with IE's own VML markup. However, native VML can do text on a path and such things much like SVG. I think theoretically if you want complex text handling you'd want SVG and VML like the Raphael library that Dan mentioned.
You might also consider Flash for a moment before starting.

As mentioned above, canvas is the way you should go. IE doesn't support it natively, so you'll need to download ExCanvas to ensure cross-browser compatibility. I'd recommend looking at Ajaxian for some projects that use the canvas tag.

Checkout the jQuery Drawing plugin, and you can also look at the Mozilla Canvas reference and tutorial.

Also mxGraph. This doesn't use excanvas for IE. Excanvas is way slower than using VML, specifically, re-using the same VML nodes rather than deleting, adding DOM nodes for redrawing. This is often a overlooked point, but excanvas on IE performance is just awful.

Depending on how cross-browser you need to be and your goal of doing the output, you might look into the Canvas element and the related javascript.
Canvas

D3.js
D3.js is a JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on
data. D3 helps you bring data to life using HTML, SVG, and CSS. D3’s
emphasis on web standards gives you the full capabilities of modern
browsers without tying yourself to a proprietary framework, combining
powerful visualization components and a data-driven approach to DOM
manipulation.
Take a look at this discussion too.