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The timeline examples are not simple .SVG files, since they need to react to zooming in by replacing decades with years with months with days and so on. I can give you a SVG file of the years-level-zoom state of the timeline, and you could zoom in and out, but it wouldn't change the dates etc unless you would code that in JavaScript. Does this help?

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Yeah that would help - sometimes at work I make proof-of-concept demos... and I was thinking of making a timeline like yours but with images on a canvas as you zoom/scroll the timeline. So I was already planning to have to write a good amount of javascript.

So you're hoping I can give you the interactive version, which automatically switches between decades, years, months etc?

I can look into providing my timeline as library, but that would take a while. It's built on angular4.

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