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I created this project as part of a scholarship program and also for a research symposium.

It is made with Ajax, PHP, and XHTML.

The RSS Reader is called with a simple URL so it can be placed easily in a link or a block of text. Since XMLHttpRequest cannot access non-local content, PHP was used to mirror the feeds locally. This was done with Remote Procedure Calls to PHP functions.

The Timeline is built with the SIMILE Timeline API. It allows an XML file to be read and its contents displayed on a movable timeline similar to Google Maps. I then extended its functionality to allow users to input new events on the timeline. This was done with a PHP RPC since Ajax is unable to modify the server file system. And finally to allow quick navigation through the timeline I implemented a script that would jump to a specified year on the timeline.

It uses different technologies like PHP RPCs, XML parsing and manipulation, and other general Ajaxy techniques.

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