I’ve been getting emails from people wondering “Is Timeglider still being developed?” A clear sign of “blog anemia”…
Yes! A brand new Timeglider is on track for release in April. We’re redesigning it from scratch, re-building the back-end, and making the HTML/Javascript front end as tablet-friendly (focusing on iPad compatibility now) as possible. Some highlights:
- Most Plus features (like legend creation, calendar integration, and list editing) will be integrated into the app for a more seamless experience. (Importing data and managing users will remain as separate interfaces.)
- One will be able to zoom much farther out, to the scale of millions and billions of years.
- Published timelines will be able to limit the scope of zooming or even hide the zoom-slider completely, opting for a “static”, non-zooming type of timeline.
- Video and Audio files will play inside the timeline interface, and events will be able to have multiple web links (with custom labels) associated with them.
- You’ll be able to create events from the legend by dragging a legend item onto the timeline interface.
- Importantly, all customer data will move from “old” to “new” in a seamless fashion.
- Later in 2012, the entire Timeglider app (front end, back end, database) will be available for purchase/download as a freestanding package.
If you’re interested in testing out the “alpha” version (which I’ll make available to a small list in March), please let me know: michael@timeglider.com

Yes, we’re still hard at work here at Timeglider Industries, cranking out new javascript, css, and HTML on a daily basis!
This is an important announcement: Development of TimeGlider in the Flash platform has stopped! The application will be in a state of suspended animation — and I will be less available for providing feedback and working out bugs — until a new HTML/Javascript version of the timeline interface is in running order.
As the dust was settling from recent Adobe / Apple skirmishes (relating to Flash and the iPhone/iPad devices), Steve Jobs issued a