Sent by David Dorward on 30 April 2006 08:08
On 30/04/06, Ian Piper [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> It is just that I have tried a couple of the JavaScript-based
> scrollers I've found on the web and they work fine in the (quirks
> mode) demos but not in my (xhtml transitional) pages.
Sounds like they are simply badly written (probably not specifying a
unit on their lengths when the move content).
Showing us the code might allow us to suggest fixes.
> Alternatively, can anyone point me to a graceful way to do a
> standards-based horizontal scrolling news ticker (I don't actually
> want to do one of these, but my client really insists)?
They are somewhat on the pointless side on the WWW. The problem they
solve is to display a lot of information non-interactively to a lot of
people - on the WWW you usually have one person per browser, and that
browser can have scrollbars, so you don't need the side effects of "Oh
drat, I missed it, now I have to wait for it to come all the way
around again" and "The quick brown fox... movement, distract! Drat.
The quick brown fox ... (Argh, this is the 5th time I've started to
read this paragraph).".
(Maybe that will give you some fuel to raise with your client)
--
David Dorward <http://dorward.me.uk><http://blog.dorward.me.uk>
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