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A project I’ve been thinking about for a while is an interactive Port timeline. The aim is to provide at-a-glance answers to such vital questions as: ‟did Taylor’s acquire Vargellas before or after Graham’s acquire Malvedos?” and ‟which is older, Pocas or Messias?”.

A first draft is now available in beta and I would appreciate any comments about both the data and the timeline software. It should work in most browsers, although IE doesn’t support the typeface so doesn’t look as pretty

Raw lists of the dates are available for the shippers; quintas; declared years; and other regulation, politics and shippers.

Current areas where improvement is needed: declared years (particularly 19th Century and earlier); shippers towards the end of the alphabet (e.g. Taylor; Warre); navigational links for particular decades.

Thoughts? Corrections? Errors? All gratefully received!

Great work Jacob!

Very cool!

Excellent!

It looks fine in IE7 but the arrow scrolling doesn't work so you have to drag it along with the mouse. But very good work indeed

Wow excellent, the scrolling works beautifully on a MacBook

Superb piece of work Jacob. Would you like/mind having this as a permanent fixture on TPF? Along with the TN listing this would be an excellent addition. We can put it on the site directly or refer to your site, up to you - all credit will be given to you.

Thanks for a great contribution - Alex

Very cool!

Nice!

Gosh, thanks for the support, everyone.

I'm still trying to fill in/correct dates and make other improvements and would appreciate anything that I've missed out.

What do you think of the sort of material that is on it at the moment? Something I've (semi-)deliberately left out are the biographic details of the main shippers. Would that be be worth including or not?

KillerB wrote:Superb piece of work Jacob. Would you like/mind having this as a permanent fixture on TPF? Along with the TN listing this would be an excellent addition. We can put it on the site directly or refer to your site, up to you - all credit will be given to you.

Yes, I certainly would be delighted for it to be a permenant part of if you think it would be a useful addition. I'll try to get it into a more complete stage first; I think there's still quite a bit of work I'd like to do, but moving it over shouldn't be a problem. I've added a function so you can load the timeline starting at a particular year: (e.g. http://www.jacob-head.com/port/timeline ... ?year=1750 &c.) which might allow it to be better integrated into (e.g. perhaps there could be links in the TN sorted by date index to that point on the timeline, or something).

Top nice.... good job

Wow, this is great work Jacob, thanks for doing this!

Thanks, Jacob, very informative.

Best

Axel

Jacob, great work! Thanks for that.

Michael

This is very very nice, deserves a place in our reference library.

Jacob,

This is a brilliant piece of work. Is there anything that we can do to help you with its development?