Talk:John Vanbrugh

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Timeline Template is Inaccessible as Graphical Info

The "Timeline" portion of the article is a graphic, which makes it impossible for those who cannot process graphics -- in particular, the blind and partially sighted, for text-in-graphics tends to become less clear the larger the graphic is displayed -- to obtain the information contained in the Timeline.

use of this template should be discontinued and replaced by actual text contained in a timeline whose layout is controlled by CSS oedipus (talk) 22:46, 8 September 2011 (UTC)

A challenge! Did you mean something like this, using Template:Graphical timeline rather than Wikipedia:EasyTimeline:

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<timeline> ImageSize = width:320 height:700 PlotArea = left:40 right:10 top:10 bottom:10 DateFormat = yyyy TimeAxis = orientation:vertical order:reverse format:yyyy Period = from:1660 till:1730 AlignBars = early ScaleMajor = unit:year increment:10 start:1660 ScaleMinor = unit:year increment:5 start:1660 Colors = id:gray value:gray(0.7) id:nicepurple value:rgb(0.84, 0.78, 1) there is no automatic collision detection, so shift texts up or down manually to avoid overlap Define $dx = 20 # shift text to right side of bar PlotData = bar:event width:20 color:Red shift:($dx,-4) from:start till:end color:nicepurple mark:(line,white) at:1664 text:1664 Baptised in London on 24 January at:1665 text:1665 Family moves to Chester at:1681 text:1681 with London wine merchant at:1683 text:1683 May, leaves for India at:1685 text:1685 August, returns from India at:1686 text:1686 Army commission at:1688 text:1688 Arrested at Calais; “Glorious Revolution” at:1692 text:1692 Transferred to the Bastille at:1693 text:1693 Returns to England at:1694 text:1694 Naval battle at Camaret Bay at:1696 text:1696 Première of “The Relapse” at:1697 text:1697 Première of “The Provoked Wife” at:1698 text:1698 Jeremy Collier's “Short View” published at:1699 text:1699 First architectural commission, Castle Howard at:1702 text:1702 Appointed comptroller of the Royal Works at:1703 text:1703 Work starts on Haymarket Theatre at:1705 text:1705 Work starts at Blenheim Palace at:1708 text:1708 Sells Haymarket Theatre at:1709 text:1709 Main structure of Castle Howard completed at:1712 text:1712 Blenheim stops. Kings Weston House starts at:1714 text:1714 Queen Anne dies at:1715 text:1715 Work at Blenheim resumes at:1717 text:1717 Vanbrugh leaves Blenheim after final quarrel at:1718 text:1718 Work starts on Seaton Delaval Hall at:1719 text:1719 Marries Henrietta Maria Yarborough at:1722 text:1722 Blenheim Palace completed at:1723 text:1723 Knighted by King George I at:1726 text:1726 Dies “of asthma” at Whitehall on 26 March at:1728 text:1728 Unfinished play published by Colley Cibber TextData = pos:(100,710) fontsize:12 text:"Timeline" </timeline>

I can see that having this as text (rather than as a graphic) is an improvement, but it is a bit bigger and doesn't seem to want to start with the lower years (1664) at the top. No doubt this can be improved to use sidebars to show at a glance when he was in India or France, or working on various projects. There are some other examples, such as Template:Joan of Arc graphical timeline. -- Ferma (talk) 19:23, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

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