Meeting the flash challenge with a Scrolling Timeline on Storyline

Feb 02, 2013

I belong to several groups on LinkedIn and we get some interesting discussions going about Flash and the future of HTML5. I often speak up on behalf of Storyline, in that it's amazing what you can do with some of the advanced features. I had to put my money where my mouth was though when several people started looking for alternatives to Storyline so they could do Flash like interactions, such as a Scrolling Timeline.

It took almost every advanced feature Storyline has but I think the effort was worth it. See what you think on Try it out at Scrolling Timeline

Feel free to ask any questions you like.

10 Replies

Phil Mayor
Hero

11 years ago02/03/13 at 1:52 am (UTC)

I like it, nice idea

but I think it may be a bit disingenuous to say it used every advanced feature in storyline, I think it is achievable in three layers plus a layer for each date.

Thanks for sharing

Bruce Graham
Hero

11 years ago02/03/13 at 2:41 am (UTC)

Jacinta,

That is a nice idea, however, have to agree with Phil - not sure what "advanced features" you have used.

I would say you have proved SL can build this very well.

Bruce

Jon Xie

11 years ago02/03/13 at 4:26 am (UTC)

Good idea !

Alan Landers

11 years ago02/03/13 at 9:38 am (UTC)

I don't know enough about SL to say whether you used all the advanced features or not. I like what you did and I know I will use your ideas. Glad you were able to work it out and share.

Warmly,

Alan

Alan Landers

11 years ago02/03/13 at 9:40 am (UTC)

Can you please send or post the .story file?

Tom Kuhlmann
Staff

11 years ago02/04/13 at 9:32 am (UTC)

Jacinta: thanks for sharing the demo and for mentioning Storyline in the discussions. I assume that the arrow buttons are linking to animated slide layers.

The cool thing with Storyline is that there are always a number of ways to approach interactive content. It would be interesting to see how someone else would have crafted something similar.