On 12/15/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 05:10:06PM -0500, Dave Grogan wrote:
Yeah, there are only about 8 good ones that are really distinctive, and then after about 20 you can get into some hairy situations. It's not that bad though because usually an off-green is next to an off-red or something. It's only bad when a color and two of its off-colors are all close. I might have it wrap after 10 but add a hover feature that will pop up the contributor's name.
You've seen the IBM work on this sort of thing, right?
No. Please inform.
In light of your posting today, I guess I'd better get to answering this. I can't find the link I blogged (I'm too witty for my own good, clearly), but I spotted it at Metafilter about 8 months to a year ago, and it was a graphical waterfall style representation of how a Wikipedia page changes over time. ISTR they weren't releasing the code at that time, but the details are lost to me.
I don't know that it's directly relevant to what you want to do, but it might bear investigation. I'll look a little further.
I think you're referring to this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_History_Flow_tool