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thanks for the info and that link to the source.

Edit: Isn't this where the 55%, 28%, 17% widths derived from? Looks like a hard coded values?

https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript-Website/blob/d4c638f...

Ah, yeah that's what you mean - so the first time I built this graph I used the real dates and their difference from release to give accurate %s. This turned out to not work, because there wasn't enough space to fit the text underneath. I then explored making the graph vertical with accurate %s, but it still felt heavily one-sided at end with the beta/rc/release. all clumped at the bottom.

The third iteration is this, I moved the release date up into a sentence above, then had a mostly representational but kinda accurate overview of the three release stages. I think it gets the idea of the phases across, works in all browser sizes etc and doesn't take up too much visual space

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