title: Alternative to SIMILE Timeline for timeline visualization?
body: <p>So I have been having lots of fun playing with <a href="http://www.simile-widgets.org/timeline/" rel="noreferrer">SIMILE Timeline</a>, but unfortunately, it appears to be <a href="http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/list?can=1&amp;q=TIMELINE&amp;sort=-closed&amp;colspec=ID+Project+Type+Status+Priority+Fixed+Owner+Summary+Closed&amp;cells=tiles" rel="noreferrer">all but abandoned</a> (most recently closed ticket May 2009) and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/detail?id=419" rel="noreferrer">riddled with memory leaks</a>, especially when you are <a href="http://code.google.com/p/simile-widgets/issues/detail?id=232" rel="noreferrer">dynamically loading and unloading events</a> (which is especially true in my case).</p>
  
  <p>I am a novice in JavaScript, so debugging these leaks is going to be more than a little complicated. Before I dive head-first into fixing a problem in a language I don't understand or a codebase I have never looked at, I want to know if there is anything out there that compares to the feature-set that I can get with Timeline:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Multiple events on one band
  
  <ul>
  <li>instead of having 10, 100, 1000 <em>rows</em> of data, use the space available to fit multiple events on one line when possible</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>Scrollable</li>
  <li>CSS styling down to the specific event
  
  <ul>
  <li>I can specify a specific icon, font, etc., for each event if I need to.  This is great for highlighting error events or interesting events</li>
  </ul></li>
  <li>filtering/searching/highlighting</li>
  <li>highlighting a band of time or point in time
  
  <ul>
  <li>This would be a vertical band that shows a 'now' moment, or a band that covers a time period's start and end time</li>
  </ul></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Egtj3l.jpg"></p>
  
  <p>I know that alot of these features can probably be put into things such as <a href="http://code.google.com/p/flot/" rel="noreferrer">Flot</a> or <a href="http://www.highcharts.com/demo/" rel="noreferrer">HighCharts</a>, but these things were next to free for me to use in Timeline, so I'm weighing the cost/benefit of whether it is easier to fix a memory leak or roll out 3 - 4 features on some library that doesn't have it.  My gut says "fix the leak, it's easier", but I would like to know if anyone can show me something that might be 90% of the way there with a low barrier of entry to getting that other 10%.</p>