Non-date use

[zzolo]

I recently ran into an instance where someone used the Vertical Timeline for non-date data. Specifically they were grouping Pittsburg light rail lines (picture included).

This kind of blew my mind. I think it would mean some specific code to make this happen as things are heavily involved on Moment and data ordering. So, if the use case seems like its worth the extra bit of code, then we should do it??

My assumption is that this would require some sort of option to turn off date parsing and then make the MomentJS dependency more optional.

[MuTLY]

I think Isotope (http://isotope.metafizzy.co/) would be the right choice for that kind of presentation, not Tik-Tok.

[zzolo]

Hey @MuTLY, why do you say that? To me this is more a question of data structure and whether Tik Tok wants to be strict about that not layout/design. Given the example, there is a use for using the layout for non-date data.

[MuTLY]

Hi @zzolo yes there is and I see no problem on its usage, I'm just saying that Tik Tok should be excellent at one thing, its core purpose (timelines) and not divert - too much - from that.

Isotope's filtering method (http://isotope.metafizzy.co/filtering.html) would've work better on that example up there.