I want to develop a page where I have a timeline that would have a play/pause button and when it plays I'd like other items to move from one zone to another, based on events in the timeline. Imagine for example countries becoming members of the united nations or something like this, where you have one (non-UN) zone of country names that move to another  (members) zone.

For this I wonder if jquery's drag and drop events can be simulated to be triggered when the timeline hits a given point in time while playing so that a country name gets dragged from one zone and dropped in the other zone, without human intervention. 

For the timeline, this could be the "simile" timeline, or the jquery timeline plugin if it can be made to play/pause.

Thanks for your ideas,

Jakob.